Art Of The Day Weekly
#377 - from 26 February 2015 to 4 March 2015
Jusepe de Ribera, St Peter and St Paul, c. 1616, oil on canvas, 126 x 112 cm, Strasbourg, musée des Beaux-Arts © Photo : Musées de Strasbourg, Mathieu Bertola
News about Ribera when young
STRASBOURG - In 1606, a young prodigal Spanish, fifteen year-old boy, Ribera, appeared in Rome, just at the time when the most steamy artist of the moment, Caravaggio, fled the city in precipitation, leaving a deep mark. Those young years of Ribera were not as well known as his triumph in Naples, where he settled at the age of twenty five. Recent research has allowed though to determine he is the author of certain works attributed until now to the mysterious Master of Salomon's Judgement. The exhibition shows in detail these research works by presenting purchases by the Louvre between 2012-2013 (Saint John the Evangelist) and works from the museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (Saint Jude Thaddée), regarding an apostolado cycle, or half-body figures of apostles.
• Ribera à Rome, autour du premier Apostolado at the musée des Beaux-Arts, from 28 February to 31 May 2015.