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Lodovico Carrache
(1st May, 1555 - 13th Nov, 1619)
Esther devant Assuérus
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Thierry Le Mage
musée du Louvre
http://www.louvre.fr
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Keywords:
tent
figure study
turban
Xerxès Ier (519-465 av J.-C.)
Esther (wife of Ahasuerus)
meet
drapery
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About the artwork
Title:
Esther devant Assuérus
Periods:
modern age
17th century
XVIIth century
Techniques:
wash with grey
grey ink
pen (drawing)
white highlights
black chalk
gouache
gouache highlighits
Dimensions:
252 x 374
Inventory number:
INV7656-recto
Detail:
Vers 1600-1619
Location:
musée du Louvre
About the author(s)
Author:
Lodovico Carrache
Also known as:
Louis Carrache
Ludovico Carracci
Lodovico Carraci
Ludovic Carrache
Born:
1st May, 1555
Dead:
13th Nov, 1619
Country:
Italie
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Ludovico
(or
Lodovico
)
Carracci
(21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light that create spiritual emotion and are credited with reinvigorating Italian art, especially fresco art, which was subsumed with formalistic Mannerism. He died in Bologna in 1619.
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