Bernardino Mei

(Siena, 1612 - Roma, 1676)

Oil painting on canvas

cm. 171,5x232

Expertise of Prof. Marco Ciampolini. "Here we are faced with a paradigmatically baroque way of understanding both the theme and the composition, just as the dynamism that animates the characters and envelops the drapery and the narrative pathos is baroque. for the unequivocal stylistic characters, it is by the hand of Bernardino Mei, one of the most original interpreters in painting of that movement. The painter also dealt with the same theme in a painting of the collegiate church of Santa Maria in Provenzano in Siena, this time in monochrome and developed more in the longitudinal direction, through the addition of two figures of soldiers at the ends. [...] "Extract from the expertise of Prof. Marco Ciampolini.