Jose de Ribera

Biography

Born with Játiva, province of Valencia, it settles very young person in Italy, where it paints a first series of the Five Directions , of which were preserved two tables as well as a copy of the three others. He is the first large Master of the Spanish school of the 17th century, and one of most important of his time.

Arrived at Naples, in 1616, it is protected from the Spanish viceroy, the duke of Osuna, for which it paints several paintings preserved at Collegial of Osuna, Saint Sebastien, the Martyrdom . It acquires a brilliant reputation there and can thus meet many artists of passage, in particular his compatriot Diego Vélasquez.

Ribera Marie with Catalina de Azzolino, girl of a poor painter. Its beginnings in painting are loans of caravagesque tenebrism, but whereas Caravage gives much intensity to the table through strong contrasts clearly-obscure and the dynamism of the attitudes, at Spanish, theobscure one is used to give a certain mystery to work, without decreasing the serenity and the balance of the scene.

From this first time, one raises his four religious tables of prophetic interpretation and an extraordinary magnificence: Holy Jerome, Holy Sebastien looked after by the Holy Women , the tables with mythological topic are also important: sleño borracho (Insular Drunk). One notices the ascetic vision of the artist in the representations of the prophets, apostles, saints, etc: Saint Paul Hermit, Holy Roch, Holy Andre, Holy Jacques Major the .

With maturity, it is released little by little from its initial tenebrism. Its pallet is cleared up and becomes more luminous, its tonalities are more harmonious: the Immaculate Conception . It is the time of its great production; its pallet S `inspires more and more by the Venetian school, as show it Venus and Adonis, Apollon and Marsyas and in the tables intended for chartreuse of San Martino. Ribera moves away from the complicated, typical compositions of the Italian baroque, and prefers to give to its characters an emotive intensity. Year 1646, the Miracle of Saint January is one of its more important retables.

Ribera liked also the anecdotic and popular aspects: thus, in the series of the Philosophers , one notices representations of beggars or types popular: the Young girl with the Tambourine, the Merry Drinker, the Drinker of Muscatel , or characters extravagant the Woman with Barb . Last works of the painter highlight a great richness in the field of the composition and the color: Worship of the Shepherds, Holy Penitent Jerome .

Some works

the Club-footed person , Museum of Louvre,
the martyrdom of Saint Philippe , Museum of Prado,
worship of the shepherds , museum of Louvre,
the miracle of Saint Donat , museum of Amiens,
Holy Marie the Egyptian woman , Museum Fabre of Montpellier,

Homages

Its name was given to a street 16th district of Paris.

Bibliography and sources

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

Twenty-seven works preserved at Fine Art Museum off San Francisco

ORBACH (David), “HOLY table CHRISTOPHE of Jose OF RIBERA”

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