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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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BECCAFUMI, Domenico
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Fall of the Rebellious Angels gjh
Painting ID:: 4997 BECCAFUMI, Domenico10.jpg
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BECCAFUMI, Domenico
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Italian Mannerist Painter, ca.1486-1551
Domenico was born in Montaperti, near Siena, the son of Giacomo di Pace, a peasant who worked on the estate of Lorenzo Beccafumi. Seeing his talent for drawing, Lorenzo adopted him, and commended him to learn painting from Mechero, a lesser Sienese artist.[1] In 1509 he traveled to Rome, but soon returned to Siena, and while the Roman forays of two Sienese artists of roughly his generation (Il Sodoma and Peruzzi) had imbued them with elements of the Umbrian-Florentine Classical style, Beccafumi's style remains, in striking ways, provincial. In Siena, he painted religious pieces for churches and of mythological decorations for private patrons, only mildly influenced by the gestured Mannerist trends dominating the neighboring Florentine school. There are medieval eccentricities, sometimes phantasmagoric, superfluous emotional detail and a misty non-linear, often jagged quality to his drawings, with primal tonality to his coloration that separates him from the classic Roman masters. |
Fall of the Rebellious Angels gjh |
1540s
Oil on wood, 347 x 227 cm
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena |
Related Paintings::. | Klosterruine Eldena | Sleeping Christ with Zacharias John the Baptist | Adoration of the Shepherds | |
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