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Description: | The Martyrdom of St Bartholomew was a popular subject in Counter-Reformation Italy and Spain. Bartholomew, an apostle and preacher, was flayed and murdered by King Astyages in the Armenian town of Albanapolis. This work is after the artist Jusepe de Ribera (1588?-1652) who was influenced by the work of Caravaggio in his use of sharp contrasts of light and shade and extreme naturalism which Ribera would have seen both in Rome and in Naples, where he lived from 1616 until the end of his life. Unlike Caravaggio, Ribera has enlivened the canvas with a variety of brushstrokes and textures, allowing the viewer to become further involved with this psychologically charged painting. | Subjects: | figure; religion (Martyrdom of St Bartholomew); landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Ribera, Jusepe de (Spanish painter and printmaker, baptized in 1591, died 1652, active in Italy) Æ After | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8333... | Go to resource |
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