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Jusepe de Ribera was a Spanish painter, active mainly in Naples and more generally for the Spanish court. He was one of the greatest protagonists of Neapolitan and European painting of the 17th century as well as one of the most important painters following the Neapolitan Caravaggism movement, from which he generated a peculiar pictorial current, tenebrism, which was characterized by an exasperated, violent and brutal representation of reality. Read the full biography

Jusepe de Ribera was a Spanish painter, active mainly in Naples and more generally for the Spanish court. He was one of the greatest protagonists of Neapolitan and European painting of the 17th century as well as one of the most important painters following the Neapolitan Caravaggism movement, from which he generated a peculiar pictorial current, tenebrism, which was characterized by an exasperated, violent and brutal representation of reality. , accentuated by epidermal, anatomical and psychic details in the characters depicted. His style, which evolved over time influenced by neo-Venetian classicism, was a model and point of reference for contemporary Neapolitan painters and those of subsequent generations, indelibly marking all Neapolitan painting of the seventeenth century.