Dino Ferrari - San Giovanni

The iconography of Saint John the Evangelist is widespread in Christian art. Indeed, Saint John is one of the main protagonists of the Gospel, Jesus's beloved disciple, and is present at every moment of the Passion. Indeed, together with Our Lady of Sorrows, he forms the "mourning couple," one of the most common variants of the iconography of the Crucifixion. Generally, there are two traditional iconographic types for Saint John: the first is that of a beardless young man, often found in depictions of the Last Supper, often grieving on Jesus's shoulder; the second type is that of the evangelist and prophet who had the vision of the Apocalypse, depicted as a bearded old man, often accompanied by his evangelical symbol, the eagle.

In this painting, the painter Dino Ferrari adheres not only to an iconography but also to a traditional form. The work, in fact, reflects a type of naturalism typical of modern art, particularly the eighteenth century. The figures are monumental, but their volumes melt softly into the atmosphere in delicate light tones.

Dino Ferrari was a painter from Ascoli Piceno, born in 1914 and died in 2000. He trained in Rome, where he moved in 1935 and studied the Neo-Impressionists and the Novecento group. After the war, he returned to Ascoli Piceno, where he opened his own studio, receiving numerous commissions, especially as a portraitist. In 1958, he also held a major solo exhibition in Florence, which garnered enormous success, and his painting "Assault on the City" was purchased by the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Palazzo Pitti, where it remains today.

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