Saturday, January 23, 2016

European religious paintings, 15th-17th centuries

Anthony van Dyck
Pietà
ca. 1629
oil on canvas
Prado

Van Dyck groups three mourners side by side, defining them as separate blocks of blue and yellow and red. A small child with a box of crayons would color the figures in this same way, a line-up of big contiguous uniform lumps. How does Van Dyck conceal the crudeness of his scheme and persuade the viewer that it is, on the contrary, naturalistic and inevitable and transcendently harmonious?  

Alessandro Turchi
Lamentation over the Dead Christ
ca. 1645-50
oil on touchstone
Clark Art institute

Fra Filippo Lippi
St Lawrence Enthroned with Saints & Donors
15th century
tempera on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art

workshop of Rogier van der Weyden
Pietà
ca. 1450
oil on wood
Prado

Jusepe de Ribera
The Trinity
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
Prado

Antonio Vivarini
St Peter Martyr restoring a severed leg
1450s
tempera on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Francisco Ribalta
Dead Christ with Angels 
ca. 1625
oil on canvas
Prado

Michele Parrasio
Pope Pius V with the Dead Christ
ca. 1572-75
oil on canvas
Prado

Northern French painter
Legend of St Anthony Abbot, with a Donor
ca. 1450
oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jacob Jordaens
Pietà
1650s
oil on canvas
Prado

Karel Dujardin
St Paul healing the Cripple
1663
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum

Fernando Gallego
Pietà
1465-70
mixed media on wood
Prado

Carlo Crivelli
Pietà
1476
tempera on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Daniele Crespi
Pietà
1623-24
oil on canvas
Prado