サザビーズのインスタグラム(sothebys) - 1月29日 10時13分

Painted on a large piece of alabaster (“Volterra onyx”), this dynamic and dramatic ‘Fall of the Rebel Angels’ is a relatively early work by Orazio Gentileschi. It is dateable to 1601/2, at the moment when Gentileschi begins to shift away from his mannerist beginnings to a more naturalistic style, due in part to his burgeoning friendship with Caravaggio. The work depicts the moment when the Archangel Michael and his army succeed in hurling the rebel angels from heaven. The youthful Michael is shown in the upper center of the composition, surrounded by his band of adolescent angels. Gentileschi achieves a sense of their lightness by using the patterning in the stone to suggest that they are floating on clouds. He uses the same technique to suggest the flaming chasms into which the newly damned angels have been condemned. The area behind the archangel is washed in with a brilliant lapis blue, lightening into an earthy green, where the faint figures of other angels can be seen battling in the distance. A star highlight from our evening sale of Master Paintings, the work is currently on view in #NYC as part of #SothebysMasters week exhibitions.

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