Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652), the Spanish painter who established his career in Naples and became one of the foremost exponents of Caravaggesque naturalism, spent part of his youth in Parma. His presence there has long been known from early accounts of his life. In a letter of 1618, Ludovico Carracci referred to a Spanish painterContinue reading “Ribera in Parma: Directions of Influence”
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Andrea del Sarto and the French Court: Leonardo, Raphael and Visual Legacy
Before France Andrea del Sarto’s journey to France in 1518 has acquired a special place in accounts of his career. John Shearman treated that year as the beginning of Andrea’s ‘heroic period’, while Jan Sammer’s recent reconstruction of the painter’s movements has given the French episode a much firmer documentary basis than it previously possessed.Continue reading “Andrea del Sarto and the French Court: Leonardo, Raphael and Visual Legacy”
