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Circle of BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO (Seville, 1617 - 1682)."Saint Peter.Oil on canvas.Size: 126 x 94
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Circle of BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO (Seville, 1617 - 1682).
"Saint Peter.
Oil on canvas.
Size: 126 x 94 cm; 144 x 112 cm (frame).
In this canvas we see St. Peter showing his repentance, after having denied Christ three times after his capture in the mount of Olives. The figure is worked with great naturalism, emphasising the wrinkles on the face and the expressiveness of the hands, and the tenebrist lighting used gives the figure a greater physical presence, a greater three-dimensionality and also intensity and effect. These features, as well as the range of colours used, are typical of the naturalistic Baroque of Caravaggio and Ribera, the main influences in this composition. The dramatic figure is set against a dark background of dense darkness, as if emerging from the shadows, directly illuminated by a theatrical, directed spotlight that falls directly on the saint's face and hands, leaving the rest of the figure enveloped in a nuanced half-light. With regard to the subject depicted, Saint Peter (Bethsaida, c. 1 BC - Rome, 67) was, according to the New Testament, a fisherman, known to be one of Jesus' twelve apostles. The Catholic Church identifies him through the apostolic succession as the first Pope, based among other things on Jesus' words to him: "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the power of Death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven". Saint Peter could be said to have been Jesus' confessor, his closest disciple, the two being united by a very special bond, as narrated in both the canonical and apocryphal Gospels.
The technical characteristics of the work are similar to those of Murrillo, who has gone down in history as one of the great painters of children's themes, not only for his famous genre scenes featuring children, but also for depictions such as this one, in which the Christ Child appears in the biblical metaphor of the good shepherd who feeds and cares for his sheep. This type of image was a great success among Sevillian society at the time, and its devotional efficacy has remained intact over the centuries. In this type of work, which in many cases was intended for private worship, the artist showed himself to be a true master when it came to combining a wise and delicate style with a gentle and sweet content.
"Saint Peter.
Oil on canvas.
Size: 126 x 94 cm; 144 x 112 cm (frame).
In this canvas we see St. Peter showing his repentance, after having denied Christ three times after his capture in the mount of Olives. The figure is worked with great naturalism, emphasising the wrinkles on the face and the expressiveness of the hands, and the tenebrist lighting used gives the figure a greater physical presence, a greater three-dimensionality and also intensity and effect. These features, as well as the range of colours used, are typical of the naturalistic Baroque of Caravaggio and Ribera, the main influences in this composition. The dramatic figure is set against a dark background of dense darkness, as if emerging from the shadows, directly illuminated by a theatrical, directed spotlight that falls directly on the saint's face and hands, leaving the rest of the figure enveloped in a nuanced half-light. With regard to the subject depicted, Saint Peter (Bethsaida, c. 1 BC - Rome, 67) was, according to the New Testament, a fisherman, known to be one of Jesus' twelve apostles. The Catholic Church identifies him through the apostolic succession as the first Pope, based among other things on Jesus' words to him: "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the power of Death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven". Saint Peter could be said to have been Jesus' confessor, his closest disciple, the two being united by a very special bond, as narrated in both the canonical and apocryphal Gospels.
The technical characteristics of the work are similar to those of Murrillo, who has gone down in history as one of the great painters of children's themes, not only for his famous genre scenes featuring children, but also for depictions such as this one, in which the Christ Child appears in the biblical metaphor of the good shepherd who feeds and cares for his sheep. This type of image was a great success among Sevillian society at the time, and its devotional efficacy has remained intact over the centuries. In this type of work, which in many cases was intended for private worship, the artist showed himself to be a true master when it came to combining a wise and delicate style with a gentle and sweet content.
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Circle of BARTOLOMÉ ESTEBAN MURILLO (Seville, 1617 - 1682).
"Saint Peter.
Oil on canvas.
Size: 126 x 94 cm; 144 x 112 cm (frame).
In this canvas we see St. Peter showing his repentance, after having denied Christ three times after his capture in the mount of Olives. The figure is worked with great naturalism, emphasising the wrinkles on the face and the expressiveness of the hands, and the tenebrist lighting used gives the figure a greater physical presence, a greater three-dimensionality and also intensity and effect. These features, as well as the range of colours used, are typical of the naturalistic Baroque of Caravaggio and Ribera, the main influences in this composition. The dramatic figure is set against a dark background of dense darkness, as if emerging from the shadows, directly illuminated by a theatrical, directed spotlight that falls directly on the saint's face and hands, leaving the rest of the figure enveloped in a nuanced half-light. With regard to the subject depicted, Saint Peter (Bethsaida, c. 1 BC - Rome, 67) was, according to the New Testament, a fisherman, known to be one of Jesus' twelve apostles. The Catholic Church identifies him through the apostolic succession as the first Pope, based among other things on Jesus' words to him: "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the power of Death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven". Saint Peter could be said to have been Jesus' confessor, his closest disciple, the two being united by a very special bond, as narrated in both the canonical and apocryphal Gospels.
The technical characteristics of the work are similar to those of Murrillo, who has gone down in history as one of the great painters of children's themes, not only for his famous genre scenes featuring children, but also for depictions such as this one, in which the Christ Child appears in the biblical metaphor of the good shepherd who feeds and cares for his sheep. This type of image was a great success among Sevillian society at the time, and its devotional efficacy has remained intact over the centuries. In this type of work, which in many cases was intended for private worship, the artist showed himself to be a true master when it came to combining a wise and delicate style with a gentle and sweet content.
"Saint Peter.
Oil on canvas.
Size: 126 x 94 cm; 144 x 112 cm (frame).
In this canvas we see St. Peter showing his repentance, after having denied Christ three times after his capture in the mount of Olives. The figure is worked with great naturalism, emphasising the wrinkles on the face and the expressiveness of the hands, and the tenebrist lighting used gives the figure a greater physical presence, a greater three-dimensionality and also intensity and effect. These features, as well as the range of colours used, are typical of the naturalistic Baroque of Caravaggio and Ribera, the main influences in this composition. The dramatic figure is set against a dark background of dense darkness, as if emerging from the shadows, directly illuminated by a theatrical, directed spotlight that falls directly on the saint's face and hands, leaving the rest of the figure enveloped in a nuanced half-light. With regard to the subject depicted, Saint Peter (Bethsaida, c. 1 BC - Rome, 67) was, according to the New Testament, a fisherman, known to be one of Jesus' twelve apostles. The Catholic Church identifies him through the apostolic succession as the first Pope, based among other things on Jesus' words to him: "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the power of Death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven". Saint Peter could be said to have been Jesus' confessor, his closest disciple, the two being united by a very special bond, as narrated in both the canonical and apocryphal Gospels.
The technical characteristics of the work are similar to those of Murrillo, who has gone down in history as one of the great painters of children's themes, not only for his famous genre scenes featuring children, but also for depictions such as this one, in which the Christ Child appears in the biblical metaphor of the good shepherd who feeds and cares for his sheep. This type of image was a great success among Sevillian society at the time, and its devotional efficacy has remained intact over the centuries. In this type of work, which in many cases was intended for private worship, the artist showed himself to be a true master when it came to combining a wise and delicate style with a gentle and sweet content.
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