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Resting
Antonio Mancini (Italian, 1852–1930)
c. 1887
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 60.9 × 100 cm (23 5/8 × 39 3/8 in.); Framed: 81.3 × 119.4 × 8.9 cm (32 × 47 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles Deering McCormick, Brooks McCormick, and Roger McCormick
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
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About this work
In Resting, 19th-century Italian painter Antonio Mancini uses an impasto technique—the brushwork clearly visible from the thickly applied paint—to evoke the haziness between wakefulness and sleep. Mancini combines his interest in the French avant-garde with the rich palettes and dark tonal contrasts of Italian Baroque painting, applying his oils with ecstatic and reckless abandon.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
