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Close up view of the rectangular mythological panel. The work is an elongated horizontal panel whose painted image occupies a broad, frieze-like field approximately twice as wide as it is high. Executed in finely modulated, opaque enamels over a flawlessly smooth, porcelain-like ground, the scene unfolds against a backdrop of pale, iridescent cloudbanks that dissolve into a delicately gradated sky.
Detail of the chariot section, showing the finely stippled flesh modelling and the translucent enamel drapery. Preliminary microscopy confirms the painting is executed on a single, kiln-fired hard-paste porcelain plaque—not on canvas or copper. The reverse (not illustrated) displays the familiar silky, grey-white biscuit typical of late-nineteenth-century Continental manufacturers.
Verso of the framed plaque: MDF back-board, paper dust-cover and brass wire suspension. ) reveals a twentieth-century framing package: Support. The porcelain plaque is seated in a recessed, 7 mm-deep wooden rebate; no kiln marks are visible because an MDF panel obscures the back.
Guido Reni's Aurora is more than a graceful mythological frieze: it is a manifesto of early Baroque classicism that purposefully evokes—and competes with—the art of classical antiquity. Reni modeled the seven dancing Hours on the Borghese Dancers relief then in Cardinal Borghese's own sculpture court, while the torch-bearing Phosphorus echoes the putto who guides Sol in the east tondo of the Arch of Constantine. By grafting these well-known antiquities onto a living ceiling cycle, Reni aligned the Borghese villa wi
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