S - Moses closes the waters of the Red Sea

The beautiful and unpublished canvas, 46 x 67 cm, is attributable to the Genoese painter Sinibaldo Scorza, a native of Voltaggio (Genoese hinterland); after an initial apprenticeship at the voltaggino Bernardo Carosio he moved to Genoa at the workshop of the scholar Giovanni Battista Paggi. He was a multifaceted artist influenced by the Flemish painters operating in Genoa in the seventeenth century. Painter, draftsman, miniaturist, engraver, he specialized in representing the "true" of nature, landscapes, small figures, animals, its inevitable protagonists "Dé Painters, who flourished at that time among us, none certainly in this genre 'equaled. ”(Soprani / Ratti, p. 216) His op