Ignatius Stern (Mauerkirchen 1679 - Rome 1748) Joseph... Lot 30

Ignatius Stern (Mauerkirchen 1679 - Rome 1748) Joseph and the wife of Putiphar Oil on canvas 133 x 270 cm The work is accompanied by a study by Dr. Massimo Pulini, available upon request by email. Moving from his native Bavaria to Italy, Ignaz Stern stayed first in Emilia Romagna, where he was a pupil of Carlo Cignani in Bologna, and then in Rome. In 1713 he moved to Forli, where he devoted himself to both religious altar painting and easel painting for private commissions. In 1724 Stern returned to Rome, where his art was distinguished by a refined reinterpretation of the Emilian school of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, drawing inspiration from Correggio and Reni, and enriching these Emilian suggestions by drawing from the elegant Roman examples of Rococo painting promoted by Sebastiano Conca, Stefano Pozzi, Benedetto Luti, Francesco Trevisani and Michele Rocca. Ignazio Stern (Mauerkirchen 1679 - Rome 1748) Joseph and Putiphar's Wife Oil on canvas 133 x 270 cm The artwork is accompanied by a study by Dr. Massimo Pulini, available upon request via email.