Alessandro Magnasco, 1735 - Interior of a Synagogue - fine art print

What does the The Cleveland Museum of Art write about this artwork painted by Alessandro Magnasco? (© - The Cleveland Museum of Art - The Cleveland Museum of Art)

The Jewish synagogue was Magnasco's favorite and most frequently painted subject, here presented in a mystical, dark, and imaginative way. Expansive architectural space creates room for a multitude of tiny, fantastical figures with elongated limbs. These characters thoroughly engage in the service as they respond with emotion and expressive gestures. Flashes of light dash across the surface against a dark, muted palette of earthy tones to create an otherworldly effect and suggest spiritual presence. The composition invites the viewer to enter the space and experience the service. Though he used characteristic elements of Baroque composition and was strongly influenced by Venetian painting, Magnasco's loose brushwork, caricature-like elongated figures, and mysterious subject matter set him apart. Magnasco peers into another world, that of a curious sector of society: he was not Jewish and probably perceived the Jews as outsiders. At the dawn of the Enlightenment in Europe, many progressive aristocratic families commissioned paintings by Magnasco, suggesting the painter's support for Enlightenment ideals such as religious tolerance. Magnasco's personal views on Judaism in Italy remain unknown.

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The painting was created by the male Italian artist Alessandro Magnasco in 1735. The over 280 years old original creation had the size: Framed: 140,5 x 167,5 x 6 cm (55 5/16 x 65 15/16 x 2 3/8 in); Unframed: 122 x 148,5 cm (48 1/16 x 58 7/16 in) and was painted with oil on canvas. The artpiece forms part of the digital art collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. This public domain work of art is supplied with courtesy of The Cleveland Museum of Art. The creditline of the artpiece is the following: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape and has an image ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. Alessandro Magnasco was a painter from Italy, whose artistic style can be attributed mainly to Baroque. The Baroque artist lived for 82 years and was born in the year 1667 in Genoa, Genova province, Liguria, Italy and deceased in the year 1749 in Genoa, Genova province, Liguria, Italy.

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