Conversion of saint paul renaissance art
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The work I chose to write about was The Conversion of St. Paul, painted by Caravaggio. It was done in the year 1600 and although I can’t find anything that says exactly where it was painted, my guess is it was painted in France. I think that because he was asked to make these two paintings depicting the same story for a chapel in France, so that’s probably where he painted it. Caravaggio’s style of painting was “… radical naturalism that combined close physical observation with a dramatic, even theatrical, use of…. tenebrism.” (Caravaggio)
The reason I’ve chosen this painting is because of it’s connection to the Council of Trent and their new standards that had come into play for the arts of the Baroque Era. The Council of Trent said that virtues and religious ideals needed to be represented in literature, and this painting does just that. This painting is showing “the moment when Saul (later to be renamed Paul) is on
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The Conversion of Saint Paul
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Title:The konvertering of Saint Paul
Artist:Benozzo Gozzoli (Benozzo di Lese di Sandro) (Italian, Florence ca. 1420–1497 Pistoia)
Medium:Tempera on wood
Dimensions:15 5/8 x 18 in. (39.7 x 45.7 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1915
Object Number:15.106.2
Benozzo Gozzoli was a principal assistant of Fra Angelico, contributing to the frescoes in San Marco, Florence, the Chapel of Nicholas V in Rome, and the vault frescoes of the chapel of San Brizio in the cathedral of Orvieto. In 1444 he signed a contract to work for three years with Lorenzo Ghiberti on the third set of bronze doors—the Gates of Paradise—for the Baptistry of Florence. His work was probably in the nature of chasing, but Ghiberti’s richly detailed narrative style left an enduring mark on Gozzoli’s work, readily visible in The Met’s four panels.
Offner (1956) first est
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CHERUBINO ALBERTI KNOWN AS BORGHEGGIANO, attribuited to
Borgo Sansepolcro, 1553 – Roma, 1615
The Conversion of Saint Paul
olio on panel, cm 108×82
Numbered in ink on the back with no. 164SO and with a handwritten inscription “Tadeo Zucaro. Stampa da Carlum Lusi Roma”
The painting is derived from the impressive Conversion of Saint Paul painted by Taddeo Zuccari in around 1564, as an altarpiece for the Frangipani Chapel in San Marcello al Corso, Rome. The painting is more glazed and sharper than the large prototype, and the fact that it reproduces the composition as a mirror image can be attributed to the use of an engraving.
Indeed, in 1592 Cherubino arkitekt, an artist from Sansepolcro and part of a very prominent family of painters, engravers and sculptors in Rome and the Upper Tiber Valley, made a print from Zuccari’s altarpiece using the press of Giovan Battista Rossi. This is why our panel bears this traditional attribution, which was already assigned to