Johann Evangelist Holzer, 1739 - Victory of Christianity over paganism - fine art print

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In the center of the representation of Christ hanging over five allegorical figures. These represent the four then-known continents - "Europe" in white dress, "Asia" with a turban, "Africa" ​​in the red robe with a spear and "America" ​​with spring frost - and for paganism. The latter is shown at the bottom left by a backward fallen man with his left arm comprises an idol. Behind this can be seen on top of the weggekippte ark. Top right, however, the figure of Ecclesia is with a chalice, cross and the keys of St. Peter. Great importance in this painting the picture lighting to the pronounced chiaroscuro. The light coming from the left light illuminates Christ from the left and so does his wounded side clearly visible. Much more the character of a phenomenon is evoked by these light mood. On the dating of this important work of the precocious and died young Holzer prevails in the research remains disagreement. According to tradition, the painting was once signed and dated, with the annual number has been read differently than in 1730 and the 1739th Whether the great maturity that we encounter in this picture, it seems the later dating credible. [Georg Lechner, 5/2010]

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In 1739 Johann Evangelist Holzer made this artwork Victory of Christianity over paganism. The beyond 280 year old original creation was painted with the size of 91 x 69,5 cm - frame size: 111 x 89 x 7 cm. Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the medium of the work of art. The artpiece has the following text as inscrption: "formerly supposedly name: Ioan Holzer fecit 1739 [lt. Neustätter, 1933 and Dittmann] or 1730 [lt. Mick, 1984, and Kramer, 2010]". It belongs to the digital art collection of Belvedere located in Vienna, Austria. With courtesy of: © Belvedere, Vienna, inventory number: 6155 (licensed: public domain). The creditline of the artwork is the following: purchase from Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna in 1976. Besides this, the alignment is in portrait format and has an aspect ratio of 3 : 4, which means that the length is 25% shorter than the width. The painter Johann Evangelist Holzer was a European artist from Germany, whose artistic style was mainly Baroque. The Baroque painter lived for 31 years and was born in the year 1709 in Burgusio, Bolzano province, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy and passed away in the year 1740 in Clemenswerth, Lower Saxony, Germany.

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