Curatorial Narrative In the mid-seventeenth century, the anonymous artist’s “Christ Served by Angels” occupies a liminal space between the grandiose gestures of Caravaggio and the nascent classicism of the French Academy. The brushwork, fine and expressive, suggests an adherence to the naturalistic ideals of the early Baroque, yet the subject matter, with its emphasis on devotional piety, betrays a lingering concern for spiritual gravity. As such, the painting’s visual mechanics are characterized by a deliberate tension between dramatic light and dark, with the gold-tinged halos of the angels suspended against a deep, ultramarine blue that serves as an unsettling counterpoint to the reddened flesh tones of Christ. At an enlarged scale of 44×49, “Christ Served by Angels” begins to exert a profound influence on its spatial environment. The chromatic structure, with its harmonious interplay between reds, blues, and earth tones, assum