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ca. 1710 \u2013 oil on canvas, cm 168 x 290<\/em><\/p>\n This painting belonged to the collection of Venetian noblewoman Marina Nani Don\u00e0 and was donated to the Pia Casa delle Penitenti with other ninety-seven paintings. Its large dimensions qualify it as a da sala<\/em> painting, and it is likely that before being included in the Don\u00e0 collection it was part of the pictorial apparatus of Villa Barbaro in Maser, a residence designed by Andrea Palladio with Paolo Veronese\u2019s frescoes in the interiors.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image _builder_version=”3.1.1″ src=”https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Nicolo-Bambini-Ester-al-cospetto-di-re-Assuero.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” use_overlay=”on” hover_overlay_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.4)” force_fullwidth=”on” \/][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.1.1″]<\/p>\n Nicol\u00f2 Bambini was a renowned exponent of Chiarismo, an artistic trend that over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries grew increasingly popular on the Venetian art scene. With extraordinary formal elegance and compositional balance, the painter illustrates the episode of Esther, the young Jewish slave asking King Ahasuerus \u2013 her husband \u2013 to save her people from the deathly conspiracy of the powerful Prince Haman.<\/p>\n Bambini created an imposing background of classical architecture \u2013 probably reminiscent of Paolo Veronese\u2019s illustrious models \u2013 infusing the scene with a markedly theatrical spirit without compromising the elegance and pureness of the formal rendition.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.1.1″ custom_margin=”0px||0px|” custom_padding=”50px||50px|”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_button admin_label=”Button Orange” button_url=”https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/collections\/fine-art\/” button_text=”BACK TO FINE ART” button_alignment=”left” module_id=”gn_button_orange” module_class=”gn_button” _builder_version=”3.1.1″ custom_button=”on” button_icon_color=”#ffffff” button_text_color_hover=”#ffffff” button_bg_color_hover=”#52545a” button_border_color_hover=”#52545a” saved_tabs=”all” global_module=”3415″ \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nicol\u00f2 Bambini<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fine-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gioiellinascostidivenezia.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}