Andrea Celesti Lot n° 127

Episode from the Old Testament oil on canvas 133 x 166 cm The canvas, of a rather rare subject, could be ascribed to the period of the great biblical cycles, painted for Villa Bettoni in Limone in the last years of the 17th century. Described by Boschini as a "great wielder of brushes and colors," in the last phase of his production at the turn of the two centuries he seems particularly sensitive to unreal iridescences and illuminations, as in the painting presented here in which Celesti shows himself to be a worthy Veronese heir and an example for early 18th-century Venetian and Austrian painting. In coeval frame.