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Orazio Riminaldi (Pisa 1593 - 1630)
Orazio Riminaldi
(Pisa 1593 - 1630)
Daedalus and Icarus Oil on canvas cm. 52x38. Framed The painting is accompanied by an expertise by Prof. Pierluigi Carofano.
The painting represents Daedalus and Icarus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (VIII, 185–235), captured at the moment in which Daedalus fastens the artificial wings to his son, in a typically seventeenth-century allegorical reading of the myth as a warning against human hubris.
The work is attributed to Orazio Riminaldi by Pierluigi Carofano and can be placed in the artist’s early phase, around 1615, shortly after his Roman experience. The composition reveals Riminaldi’s assimilation of Caravaggesque language—particularly in the strong chiaroscuro of Manfredian derivation—combined with a solid classical construction of the figures. The pose of Icarus finds close comparisons with early works by the artist, such as the Saint John the Evangelist in Calci and the Salome with the Head of the Baptist in a private collection, confirming the painting as a significant testimony to Riminaldi’s youthful production.