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Ribera: A Spanish Realist in Baroque Italy |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Jason Edward Kaufman |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1992 |
| Size: 1,583 Words, 9,931 Characters |
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It's not an exhibition for the squeamish. The central gallery is like a chamber of horrors. Villains smirk with delight as they taunt, tie, flay, and crucify seminude old men. The depiction of the kindly victims' agony leaves little to the imagination. In today's vernacular, the show is "gross." Notwithstanding, this exhibition is a treat for artists and connoisseurs--albeit not for the weak-stomached. For the author of this grisly panoply panoply of pain, the Spanish-born Italian master Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652), was one of Baroque Europe's greatest painters.
To mark the four hundredth anniversary of his birth, the Museo del Prado, Madrid, and the Museo e Gallerie Nazionali di Capodimonte, Naples, collaborated to mount a commemorative retrospective that is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York through November 29. It is a superb exhibition, including nearly all the artist's most important canvases (excluding his ensemble for San Martino, Naples) and a generous ...
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...9), The Clubfooted Boy (1642), and Saint Sebastian (1651) profoundly inspired French Realists, especially Courbet. The Metropolitan's extraordinary exhibition provides an unsurpassed opportunity to encounter this Baroque genius, to witness the intense dramas he orchestrated, and to meet the vivid cast of characters whose personalities and predicaments still engage us after four hundred years.
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