All GIuseppe Cesari Called Cavaliere arpino Oil Paintings

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GIuseppe Cesari Called Cavaliere arpino Diana and Actaeon oil painting


Diana and Actaeon
ID de tableau::  62380
Diana and Actaeon
1603-06 Oil on copper Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Author: CESARI, Giuseppe Title: Diana and Actaeon (detail) , 1601-1650 , Italian Form: painting , mythological
   
   
     

GIuseppe Cesari Called Cavaliere arpino Judith with the Head of Holofernes oil painting


Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ID de tableau::  62382
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
61,3 x 48 cm Berkeley Art Museum, University of California Cavaliere d'Arpino's (Giulio Cesari's) Judith with the Head of Holofernes symbolically alludes to the violent decapitation of the Assyrian general without showing the gruesome moment that both Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi chose to depict. Instead a beautiful, almost demure, Judith raises Holofernes' head by his locks as her maidservant Abra looks on in puzzled reverence. Cavaliere d'Arpino's Judith is the embodiment of female virtue and moral perfection, an ideal heroine who has redeemed her people. Yet, at the same time, she seems capable of exercising her seductive powers directly upon the viewer, as if the beholder were Holofernes. She is in possession of two dangerous weapons, her sword and her sexual allure. In 1602-03 Cavaliere d'Arpino had frescoed a series of Old Testament heroines in the Villa Aldobrandini at Frascati. There he depicted Judith as a full-length figure striding across the plain in front of the enemy encampment while Abra follows behind stuffing Holofernes' head into a sack. Topologically the figures are very similar, but in the easel painting Cavaliere d'Arpino condensed the composition so that the picture essentially becomes an idealised 'portrait' of Judith. In this sense it is very close to his Diana (Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome), in which the huntress is also reduced to a half-length idealised figure. In both these 'portraits' there is an emphasis on the decorative effects of colour and design. The brilliant reds, blues and whites of Judith's costume serve as a foil for the carefully delineated jewels and golden sword hilt. Baglione emphasised that Cavaliere d'Arpino was capable of working in two different styles, one of which was far more superficial than the other. It is likely that the more
   
   
     

GIuseppe Cesari Called Cavaliere arpino Diana and Actaeon oil painting


Diana and Actaeon
ID de tableau::  71486
Diana and Actaeon
1603-1606 Oil on copper 50 x 69 cm
1603-1606 Oil on copper 50 x 69 cm
   
   
     

GIuseppe Cesari Called Cavaliere arpino Diana and Actaeon oil painting


Diana and Actaeon
ID de tableau::  71546
Diana and Actaeon
1603-1606 Oil on copper 50 x 69 cm
1603-1606 Oil on copper 50 x 69 cm
   
   
     

GIuseppe Cesari Called Cavaliere arpino David with the Head of Goliath oil painting


David with the Head of Goliath
ID de tableau::  82990
David with the Head of Goliath
Date 1598 cyf
Date 1598 cyf
   
   
     

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