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Thứ Ba, 1 tháng 4, 2014

A Set Of Popular Italian Painters

By Darren Hartley


The earliest of Caravaggio paintings was the Boy Peeling a Fruit. The early Caravaggio paintings were paintings of flowers and fruits including Boy with a Basket of Fruit and Young Sick Bacchus. Physical Particularity is an aspect of Caravaggio realism for which he became famous for. This aspect was demonstrated in these paintings.

Michelangelo Merisi o Amerighi da Caravaggio was an Italian artist who was active in Rome, Naples, Malta and Sicily. The first of Caravaggio paintings with more than one figure was The Fortune Teller. It carried the theme that was quite new for Rome, that of Mario Minniti, a 16 year old Sicilian artist, being cheated by a Gypsy girl. The theme proved to be immensely influential over the next century and beyond.

More psychologically complex Caravaggio paintings include The Cardsharps, showing a boy as a falling victim to card cheats, and considered the first true Caravaggio masterpiece. The following Caravaggio paintings became the center of dispute among scholars and biographers for their homoerotic ambiance. These were The Musicians, The Lute Player, a tipsy Bacchus and Boy Bitten by a Lizard.

The first Caravaggio paintings on religious themes were a return to realism and showed an emergence of remarkable spirituality. These paintings included Penitent Magdalene, Saint Catherine, Martha and Mary Magdalene, Judith Beheading Holofernes, Sacrifice of Isaac, Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy and Rest on the Flight into Egypt.

Raphael paintings celebrated perfection and grace with serene and harmonious qualities. Raphael Sanzio was an Italian High Renaissance painter and architect. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he formed the traditional trinity of great masters of the period.

Raphael's early years in Umbria, a 4 year period absorbing Florence's artistic traditions and his last hectic and triumphant 12 years in Rome consisted the 3 phases and 3 styles into which Raphael paintings naturally fall into.

Early Raphael paintings included a brilliant self-portrait drawing showing Raphael's precocious talent. Their technique showed thick paint application with the use of an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but thin paint application on flesh areas.

The Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino was the first documented work among Raphael paintings. In the following years, Raphael paintings consisted of painted works for other churches. Among these large works, some done in fresco, are the Mond Crucifixion, the Brera Wedding of the Virgin and Oddi Altarpiece.

Small and exquisite cabinet Raphael paintings during the period included the Three Graces and St. Michael. There was also the beginning of Madonna and portrait paintings among Raphael paintings in the same period.




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