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Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
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SACCHI, Andrea
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Hagar and Ismail in the Desert ug
Painting ID:: 9033
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SACCHI, Andrea
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Italian painter, Roman school (b. 1599, Nettuno, d. 1661, Roma).Italian painter and designer. He occupied an important position, midway between Annibale Carracci and Carlo Maratti, in the development of a more restrained, less decorative painting in 17th-century Rome, a trend that culminated in the 18th century with Pompeo Batoni. Sacchi trained with Francesco Albani, Carracci's student, and taught Maratti. His often expressed devotion to the art of Raphael and Carracci and his criticism of the views of Pietro da Cortona and Gianlorenzo Bernini made him, with Nicolas Poussin and Alessandro Algardi, one of the most significant representatives of a stylistic and aesthetic opposition to the more flamboyant, extrovert aspects of the High Baroque. Sacchi did not, however, share Poussin's passionate interest in Classical antiquity, nor was his mature work as cerebral. Yet his mature style, less richly coloured than his early manner and more restrained emotionally, |
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Hagar and Ismail in the Desert ug |
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c. 1630
Oil on canvas, 96 x 92 cm
National Gallery of Wales, Cardiff |
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Related Paintings::.
| The death of the knight of Celano | Landscape with a Man Moving a barrel beside the Shore (mk05) | Madonna of the People | |
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