Christ Washing the Apostles Feet
Oil on canvas, 199 x 297 cm
Staatliche Museum, Berlin
Oil on canvas, 199 x 297 cm
Staatliche Museum, Berlin
Saturday, January 9, 2010
The Procuress - Dirk van Baburen
Dirck van Baburen (c.1595 – February 21, 1624) was a Dutch painter associated with the Utrecht caravaggisti. Dirck van Baburen's career was short, and only a few of his paintings are known today.
He mostly painted religious subjects in Rome, including the San Pietro
in Montorio Entombment that is indebted to Caravaggio's version of the same subject in the Vatican Museums.
Baburen also painted a Capture of Christ (Borghese Gallery) for Scipione Borghese and Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) for Vincenzo Giustiniani.
[Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 107.6 cm]
DIRCK VAN BABUREN
Dutch painter (original name Theodor Baburen) who was a leading member of the Utrecht school, which was influenced by the dramatic chiaroscuro style of the Italian painter Caravaggio.
After studying painting with a portraitist and history painter in Utrecht, Baburen traveled to Rome about 1612.
His most important Italian commission
was the decoration of a chapel in the Church of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome (1615-20), which included his Entombment (1617).
In 1620 Baburen returned to Utrecht, where he shared a studio with Hendrick Terbrugghen in about 1622-23.
The influence of Caravaggio may be seen in his Christ Crowned with
Thorns (two versions, at the Franciscan House, Weert, Netherlands, and at Drury-Lowe Collection, Locko Park, England), based on a lost painting by the master. Baburen was especially fond of genre scenes (subjects from everyday life), such as
The Procuress (1622; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
A certain coarseness in conception, irregular compositional rhythms, and less atmospheric quality distinguish Baburen's art from that of his greater contemporaries
but his manner of painting can be said to be broad and forceful.
After studying painting with a portraitist and history painter in Utrecht, Baburen traveled to Rome about 1612.
His most important Italian commission
was the decoration of a chapel in the Church of San Pietro in Montorio, Rome (1615-20), which included his Entombment (1617).
In 1620 Baburen returned to Utrecht, where he shared a studio with Hendrick Terbrugghen in about 1622-23.
The influence of Caravaggio may be seen in his Christ Crowned with
Thorns (two versions, at the Franciscan House, Weert, Netherlands, and at Drury-Lowe Collection, Locko Park, England), based on a lost painting by the master. Baburen was especially fond of genre scenes (subjects from everyday life), such as
The Procuress (1622; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
A certain coarseness in conception, irregular compositional rhythms, and less atmospheric quality distinguish Baburen's art from that of his greater contemporaries
but his manner of painting can be said to be broad and forceful.
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