Jose de Ribera
(1588 - 1652) |
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chiaroscuro technique, religious scenes lit by candlelight and mythological subjects Art Work
| Name: |
Jose de Ribera |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Játiva, Spain |
| Nationality: |
Spanish |
| Birth: |
1588 |
| Death: |
1652 |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
chiaroscuro technique, religious scenes lit by candlelight and mythological subjects |
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| Method: |
oil |
| Style: |
Chiaroscuro |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
Printmaker
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Biography
| Jose de Ribera was a leading painter of the Neapolitan or partly of the Spanish school. His parents intended him for a literary or learned career; but he neglected the regular studies, and entered the studio of a prominent Spanish artist. Driven with a longing to study art in Italy, he made his way to Rome. Early in the 17th century a cardinal noticed him in the streets of Rome drawing from the frescoes on a palace facade; he took up the ragged stripling and housed him in his mansion. Artists had then already bestowed upon the alien student, who was perpetually copying all sorts of objects in art and in nature, the nickname of Lo Spagnoletto. In the cardinal's household Ribera was comfortable but dissatisfied, and one day he decamped. He then betook himself to the famous painter Caravaggio, the head of the naturalist school, called also the school of the Tenebrosi, or shadow-painters, owing to the excessive contrasts of light and shade which marked their style. From Parma Spagnoletto returned to Rome, where he resumed the style of Caravaggio, and shortly afterwards he migrated to Naples, which became his permanent home. |
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