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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This powerful, close up and dramatically lit view of the Mocking of Christ follows in a long tradition of imagery in which the quiescent suffering Christ is contrasting with the violent expressions and gestures of his tormentors. Their gestures are exaggerated, creating a zigzag of diagonals across the composition. Notice how the light falls from in front of and to the left of the canvas. If the canvas was originally commissioned for a specific location , such as a chapel in a church or wealthy private house, as was quite usual in the seventeenth century, the artist could have painted his picture to look as if it was lit from a real light source, such as a window in the chapel. Such manipulation of emotional and dramatic effects was typical of Italian Baroque art. Giuilio Cesare Procaccini was the second son and pupil of the Mannerist painter, Ercole Procaccini the elder. He began as a sculptor and later studied in Rome and in Venice. It has been suggested that his style was influenced by Correggio and Parmigianino. Procaccini worked mainly in Milan, where he ran the Academy, founded by his father, until his death in 1625. | Subjects: | religion (Mocking of Christ); figure; | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Procaccini, Giulio Cesare (Italian painter and draftsman, 1574-1625) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8443... | Go to resource |
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