Francesco Noletti, Still Life with Armour, c. 1650, oil on canvas, 76 × 108 cm, Museo Correr, Venice, inv. Cl. I no. 1049. Image: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Painted Carpet In 1662, the Flemish writer Cornelis de Bie related a story about a pope visiting the house of Francesco Noletti, theContinue reading “Texture, Colour and Light: Francesco Noletti (c. 1611–1654)”
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Salvator Rosa: Portraits, Self-Portraits and the Construction of Artistic Identity
Portraiture occupies an unusual place within the work of Salvator Rosa (1615–1673). Although celebrated by his contemporaries for landscapes, battle scenes and increasingly ambitious history paintings, he repeatedly returned to images of the individual figure, producing portraits of remarkable variety and psychological intensity. Some are straightforward likenesses, others adopt theatrical or philosophical roles, while stillContinue reading “Salvator Rosa: Portraits, Self-Portraits and the Construction of Artistic Identity”
Inner Surfaces 