Roberto Carignani - Face of Christ

The iconographic subject of Christ's face has ancient origins and is connected to the legend of Veronica. The episode in which Christ's true likeness was imprinted on a cloth used by a woman to wipe his face is also recounted in the Gospels. This woman was identified as Veronica, likely due to the similarity with the Latin words "Vera Icon." Since the early Christian era, the face of Christ has been the object of particular veneration. Its depiction has pervaded the entire history of Western art. From the first iconic representations of the early Christian and early Middle Ages, we gradually moved on to increasingly naturalistic (starting in the Renaissance) or realistic (typical of Flemish art) depictions.

The execution of the subject is typical of the style of the painter Roberto Carignani. He is an artist who loves to use pictorial impastos with an antique feel in a vividly realistic and evocative interpretation. Christ's soft flesh blends harmoniously with the surrounding space. He appears from the shadowy background as if he were an apparition. Carignani often uses a predominance of dark tones, being an artist heavily influenced by Modern Age painting, especially Spanish. The pictorial layering, however, is entirely contemporary, resulting in a complex and lived-in feel, dense with pictorial substance.

Roberto Carignani was a Neapolitan painter born in 1894 and died in 1975. Influenced by Spanish painting (El Greco, Velázquez, Goya), his training took place under the guidance of Vincenzo Irolli. He specialized in painting lively sensual scenes or dark nocturnes, especially those depicting the island of Capri.

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