# Christ Adored by Two Nuns [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MAGNASCO, Alessandro]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 58 x 43 cm ## Commentary Christ Adored by Two Nuns c. 1715 Oil on canvas, 58 x 43 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Alessandro Magnasco's first training was in the artistic circles of late seventeenth century Genoa where the styles most favourably regarded were those of Rubens and the painters of Lombardy with their considerable use of chiaroscuro \(Morazzone in particular\). These influences led Magnasco towards a visionary, fantastic language characterized by stylistic modes of an expressionistic rapidity of execution and a tormented luministic violence. The pictoricism of Magnasco, of which Christ Adored by Two Nuns is a significant example, worked on the imagination of many Venetian painters, and of Sebastiano and Marco Ricci and Francesco Guardi in particular. ## Related artworks - [A Hermit in a Grotto]() - [Bacchanalian Scene]() - [Banditti at Rest]() - [Christ Served by the Angels]() - [Entombment of a Soldier]() - [Gypsy Wedding Banquet]() - [Halt of the Brigands]() - [Interrogations in Jail]() - [Joseph Interprets the Dreams of the Pharaoh's Servants Whilst in Jail]() - [Market]() - [Mountainous Landscape]() - [Prayer of the Penitent Monks]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()