Italian school; second half of the 17th century.

Italian school; second half of the seventeenth century.
"Battle".
Oil on marble.
It has frame of the nineteenth century.
Measurements: 20.5 x 26 cm; 36 x 41 cm (frame).
It is interesting to mention the support of this work, since during the sixteenth century, the use of hard stones as a base for painting was popularized, an example of this gave account of the exhibition held at the Museo del Prado, in 2018 "In lapide depictum", which brought together a set of nine works made on monochrome stone, slate and marble, made by artists such as Piombo, Titian, Daniele da Volterra and Leandro Bassano. In this particular case the artist takes advantage of the veining of the marble to use it as part of the landscape.
As usual in the representation of this type of theme, it is an apparently chaotic scene, although rigorously studied, which reflects with naturalism the din of the fight, the violence of the confrontation, a violence that is also reflected in the warm and fiery chromatism itself. While in the seventeenth century the demand for religious art for churches ceased radically.