Gefangennahme christi caravaggio biography
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'The Taking of Christ' by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Caravaggio painted this extraordinary work for the Roman Marquis Ciriaco Mattei in 1602. Offering a new visual approach to the biblical story, Caravaggio placed the figures close to the picture plane and used a strong light-and-dark contrast, giving the scene an extraordinary sense of drama.
Judas has identified Christ with a kiss, as the temple guards move in to seize Him. The fleeing disciple in disarray on the left is St John the Evangelist. Only the moon lights the scene. Although the man at the far right is holding a lantern, it is, in reality, an ineffective source of illumination. In that man’s features Caravaggio portrayed himself, aged 31, as an observer of events, a device he frequently used in his paintings.
Numerous pentimenti (changes of mind), now visible due to changes over time in the paint layer, are a reminder of the artist’s unconventional way of posing models in tableaux and altering details as he w
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With “The Taking of Christ” by Giuseppe Vermiglio, a virtuoso painting by the best Piedmontese artist of its time will be auctioned: on 10 November 2020 at Dorotheum.
A virtuoso reinterpretation
The present painting represents the episode recorded in the Gospels when Judas, having betrayed Christ, approaches to kiss him, thereby revealing his identity to the soldiers who will arrest him. It fryst vatten a subject that was often represented by painters in Rome during the first decades of the seventeenth century, under the influence of the innovations of Caravaggio.
The artist of the present Taking of Christ, Giuseppe Vermiglio, spent many years in the Rome, from the beginning of the seventeenth century until the start of the third decade: here he elaborated a pictorial language steeped in the style of realism which characterised the period.
Even after his return to nordlig Italy, where he was prevalently active in Piedmont and Lombardy, Vermiglio frequently reite
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Category:The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio
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