{"id":2690,"date":"2024-02-08T09:27:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T08:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/?post_type=opera&#038;p=2690"},"modified":"2024-10-17T15:38:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:38:05","slug":"st-joseph-with-the-christ-child","status":"publish","type":"opera","link":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/opera\/st-joseph-with-the-christ-child\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Joseph with the Christ Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The painting is paired with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/opera\/madonna-of-the-pear\/\"><em>Madonna of the Pear<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elisabetta Sirani, a celebrated painter born in Bologna, trained with her father Giovanni Andrea Sirani, who had himself studied under Guido Reni. The two pictures are of the same size and were probably painted on the same occasion. Even though they were painted at a fairly late date in Elisbetta\u2019s career, they hark back to the earlier compositions that she produced in her so-called \u201cbed chamber paintings\u201d, in other words small paintings for private devotion. The first of the two pictures reveals a traditional iconographical composition with the Virgin swathed in blue holding the Christ Child, although in this instance Sirani has added the detail of a pear, an attribute which probably alludes to original sin and to Jesus\u2019s role in redeeming mankind. The artist has signed the painting on the hem of the sleeve of the Virgin\u2019s red mantle. The Christ Child appears to be bent on escaping from his mother\u2019s embrace, while holding the fruit after which the picture is named.<\/p>\n<p>The composition of the second picture is similar, but this time the Christ Child has fallen asleep in St. Joseph\u2019s arms while tenderly clutching the saint\u2019s finger. The view from close up, the vibrant colours and the masterly use of <em>chiaroscuro<\/em> combine to impart a strong emotional impact to the two works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2632,"template":"","tag-opera":[],"tecnica":[60],"class_list":["post-2690","opera","type-opera","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tecnica-oil-on-canvas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/2690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/opera"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/opera\/2690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"tag-opera","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tag-opera?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"tecnica","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinacotecafaenza.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tecnica?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}