Artista attivo a Roma, seconda metà del XVII secolo

Oil on canvas

cm. 64x47. Framed

In this image with transparent erotic connotations we recognize a harmonious combination of pictorial stimuli from different sources: from Poussin to Lorrain, from Mola to Dughet, from Garzi to Lauri. Within this skilful mixture, firmly anchored in the Roman figurative culture of the second half of the seventeenth century, the name of Filippo Lauri in particular stands out in the most stringent terms, of whom significant affinities can be found here in the conception of the landscape, and of the relationship between landscape and figures, in the warm and luminous coloring, in the Correggesque softness of the flesh tones and in the sensually decorative intonation, which prelude to the developments in the Rococo sense of Roman painting embodied by the painting of Michele Rocca: One need only think of Lauri's masterpieces such as the pair of canvases Jupiter and Io and Venus and Cupid at the Weston Park Foundation, or the Apollo and Marsyas at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London.