Saturday, January 21, 2017

Caravaggisti at the Hermitage

Nicolas Régnier
St John the Baptist in the Wilderness
ca. 1615-20
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Curators at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg place this group of 17th-century Italian paintings within a so-called "Roman School" whose practitioners were committed to the most advanced and adventurous taste, as understood in their day. After the death of Caravaggio in 1610, many Roman artists successfully adapted the same range of pictorial idiosyncracies he had brought into fashion.

Nicolas Régnier
Apollo
ca. 1615-20
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Nicolas Tournier
Lute Player
mid-17th century
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Giovanni Lanfranco
Annunciation
ca. 1615-16
oil on copper
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Antiveduto Grammatica
Mary Magdalene at the Empty Tomb
ca. 1620-25
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Anonymous Follower of Caravaggio
Bacchus
ca. 1615-30
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Orazio Gentileschi
Cupid and Psyche
before 1639
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Domenico Fetti
Burial of an Executed Criminal
before 1623
oil on panel
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Domenico Fetti
Healing of Tobit
1621-22
oil on panel
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Cavaliere d'Arpino
St Clare at the Siege of Assisi
before 1640
oil on panel
Hermitage, Saint Peteresburg

Pier Francesco Mola
The Prodigal Son
ca. 1645-50
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Pier Francesco Mola
St Jerome
ca. 1652
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Pier Francesco Mola
Landscape with figures
ca. 1645-47
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Pier Francesco Mola
Narcissus
ca. 1645-47
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

I am grateful to the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg for making reproductions available.