Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Settocento

Caravaggio
The Calling of Saints Peter & Andrew
c. 1603-05

Cristofano Allori
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
1613

Domenico Fetti
David with the Head of Goliath
1620

Peter Oliver
Self-portrait
c. 1620-25

Anastasio Fontebuoni
Madonna di Pistoia
1621

Giovanni Baglione
Allegory of Justice & Charity
1622

Guido Reni
Cleopatra
1628

Orazio Gentileschi
Sibyl
c. 1635-38

Bernardo Strozzi
Two Musicians
1635

Guido Cagnacci
Jacob Peeling the Rods
1650

Guercino
Libyan Sibyl
1651

Carlo Dolci
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
c. 1665-70

Twelve Baroque Italian painters from the Royal Collection. Scholars who study the enormous body of surviving documentation estimate that in Rome alone during the seventeenth century there were about two thousand professional painters living and working. What they left behind resembles a sort of parallel city populated by silence, accessible to emotion.