Jusepe de ribera

Jusepe de Ribera

Jusepe de Ribera

Copy of Saint Thomas (purported Ribera self-portrait) engraved by Hamlet Winstanley

Baptised()February 17,
Xàtiva, Valencia, Spain
DiedNovember 3, () (aged&#;61)

Mergellina, Naples, Italy

Occupation(s)painter and printmaker
Years&#;active
Known&#;forDrunken Silenus, Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son, The Martyrdom of Saint Philip, Clubfooted Boy, The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
MovementBaroque

Jusepe de Ribera (January 12, - September 2, ) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker.

Ribera jusepe de biography wikipedia Whatever the facts of his childhood, Ribera was evidently displeased with the way things were going and left his hometown in pursuit of bigger and better things popular belief holds that he left Spain over an argument with Ribalta concerning the master artist's daughter. Composition is obvious and unstudied. Ribera's success continued throughout the s to the point that by the s, he was able to move himself and his family into a veritable palace decadent digs complete with two gardens and an orchard in the luxurious Chiaia district, near the church of St. The method is very similar to that of his contemporary Francisco Herrera , and it is possible that Ribera had studied Herrera's pictures before going to Italy.

He also had the name Lo Spagnoletto ("the little Spaniard") given to him by his contemporaries and early biographers. Rivera was considered as one of leading painters of the Spanish School, although his mature works were painted in Italy.

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  • Main source: Scholz-Hänsel, Michael. (). Jusepe de Ribera, – .

    Cologne: Konemann. ISBN

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  • Brown, Jonathan. ().

    Ribera jusepe de biography The most complete of the three catalogues generated for the same exhibition, and the best single source of information on Ribera. Saint Sebastian. Sign in with your library card Please enter your library card number. The exhibition was organized by the Roman Catholic Church 's Pontifical Commission for Cultural Heritage in conjunction with the th anniversary of Pope Pius IX's proclamation of the Immaculate Conception —the dogma which states that Mary , the mother of Jesus , was free from original sin at the moment of her conception.

    Jusepe de Ribera: prints and drawings; [catalogue of an exhibition] The Art Museum, Princeton University, October–November . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University. OCLC the standard work on his prints and drawings.

  • Williamson, Mark A. "The Martyrdom Paintings of Jusepe de Ribera: Catharsis and Transformation"; PhD Dissertation, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York (available online at ) (link broken)

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