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Donato Creti
(24th Feb, 1671 - 31st Jan, 1749)
Saint Pierre visitant sainte Agathe dans sa prison
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Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Suzanne Nagy
musée du Louvre
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Photo (C) Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Suzanne Nagy
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Keywords:
prisoner
prison
Saint Peter the Apostle
sainte Agathe de Catane
building (interior)
drapery
angel
sitting
chained up
breast (body)
torchlight
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About the artwork
Title:
Saint Pierre visitant sainte Agathe dans sa prison
Periods:
17th century
18th century
modern age
XVIIth century
XVIIIth century
Techniques:
pen (drawing)
white highlights
wash with brown
brown ink
brown paper
Dimensions:
423 x 291
Inventory number:
INV6298-recto
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Donato Creti
Also known as:
Donatino
Born:
24th Feb, 1671
Dead:
31st Jan, 1749
Country:
Italie
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Donato Creti
(24 February 1671 – 31 January 1749) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna. Born in Cremona, he moved to Bologna, where he was a pupil of Lorenzo Pasinelli. He is described by Wittkower as the "Bolognese Marco Benefial", in that his style was less decorative and edged into a more formal neoclassical style. It is an academicized grand style, that crystallizes into a manneristic neoclassicism, with crisp and frigid modeling of the figures. Among his…
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