Antique Painting Historical Subject Oil on Canvas XVII-XVIII Century

Oil on canvas. The woman depicted in the scene can be traced back to Porzia, the Roman noblewoman and wife of Brutus, who lived in the 1st century BC: according to legend, she committed suicide by swallowing a burning coal, and it is in this fatal moment that she is depicted here. The painting is very close to the pictorial methods of the painting of the same name from the Cignani school, attributed to his pupil Marcantonio Franceschini and preserved at Palazzo Tozzoni in Imola. The figure of Porzia, placed in an interior with classical elements, occupies the entire field of the scene, and is depicted sitting in front of the burning brazier, in the act of putting the coal in her mouth; her expression reveals the suffering of the gesture she is making, but also her determination, her gaze looking into the distance already places her far from the life she is leaving. The painting has been restored and relined. It is presented in an antique 18th century frame. Ancient painting, , art articles, lady's portrait, animal paintings, painting mountain landscape, oil on canvas painting, still life paintings, 1600s painting, italian painters oil on canvas paintings landscapes, painting sea landscape, painting winter landscape, painting autumn landscape, landscape painting, ancient art, religious painting.