Dead Arts Society

Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697 - 1768)

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Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, was born I Venice on 28th of october1697. He grew up in his family home near the Campo San Lio close to the Rialto Bridge, which later appeared in some of his paintings. He spent much of his time studying architectural splendours of the city and absorbing the challenging atmosphere of Venice and it different guises.
His father, Bernado Canal was theatrical scene-painter; young Canaletto learnt the tricks of the trade from him. Bernardo introduced his son to the world of magical illusion, and gave him a thorough in the rules of perspective, which proved invaluable.
In 1720, Father and son worked together on the scenery for Vivaldi’s opera in Venice and travelled to Rome to help design the set for operas by scarlaratti.it was in Venice he gradually made up his mind to become a view painter, that means to paint landscapes of the city he knew and loved; rather than religious, historical or mythological subjects. He was later referred to as a realist, due to his love for details and especially in his ability to evoke the peculiar light and atmosphere of the city.

As Canaletto’s reputation spreads quickly, in 1725 he met Stephano Conti, a merchant from Lucca, who wanted to add some painting to his collection. Canaletto did four paintings for Conti, which he received 90 sequins the equivalent of about £45- which was a large amount of money. Conti was so pleased. Canaletto’s reputation grew more and his paintings were priced more than his compatriots.

By 1740, Canaletto was very famous, but his fortunes were on the turn. In 1741, the war of the Austrian succession broke out, making travel to European countries difficult, trade diminished and there were fewer tourists and visitors in Venice. Commissions dwindled, and Canaletto himself needed fresh inspiration and new subject matter.

He took a trip to river Brenta, ending in Padua. He stretched the surrounding countryside on the way, and the Venetians country houses, dotted along the riverside. These drawings provided him with material for large-scale paintings, which he executed on his return to Venice.

His father died in 1744, Canaletto’s father died of apoplexy, and in the same month, France declared war on England; where most of his patrons and commissions comes from, he closed his studio and in 1746 he decided to seek work in London, and his reputation preceded him.

Canaletto spent nine years in England where he made a generous amount of money. His paintings while in London include, several views of the Thames and the newly Westminster Bridge for sir Hugh Smithson and so many other patrons. But after his initial success his popularity decreased. His English patrons remembers his more lively and sensitive paintings of the late 1720s and early 1730s and was disappointed with his later works.

In 1756, he returned to Venice for good. Few of his works are known from the last decade. They are mostly small pictures, reworking of his earlier paintings and etchings or well-known engravings. He was said to have sketched in public to attract attention towards the end of his life.

On April 1768, Canaletto died of inflammation of the bladder. He was rumoured to have amassed a fortune during his lifetime, but apart from the property on the Zattere and some paintings in his studio, the only procession he left for his unmarried sisters were his bed and his old clothes.

Vincent Van Gogh 1853 - 1890

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He was born on 30th. March 1853 in the small Dutch village of Groot Zundert, near the Belgian frontier. Young Vincent worked as an evangelist before turning to art at the age of 27.

His father, Theodorus Van Gogh was a local pastor and his wife, Cornelia, was a gentle, artistic woman. Vincent was born exactly one year to the day after his mother Cornelia had delivered a stillborn baby also called Vincent Willem. Vincent’s parents placed a gravestone in the village churchyard for their lost infant that served as a constant reminder to Vincent Van Gogh of his dead namesake.

Vincent in his early childhood was described as a difficult child who spent most of his time walking alone in the fields, rarely playing with his other siblings. There are no records of his school career, but he drew and painted regularly from his early teens with the encouragement of his mother.
When he left school at the age of 16, his uncle who was a successful art dealer got him a job in his office at The Hague where he worked for the next four years.
In 1873, Vincent was transferred to London, where he fell in love with his landlady’s daughter. The affair was said to have affected his ability to work and he was dismissed.

In 1876, he returned to England and worked as an unpaid assistant at a private school in Ramsgate. The school moved to London and he was assigned to collect overdue fees in some of the poorest areas. He later resigned after failing to collect a penny because of the squalor he saw around him which greatly distressed him. It is believed that this awakened his religious zeal to become an assistant preacher to a Methodist minister.

At the age of 25 he moved to the Borinnage, a coal-mining district in south Belgium as an evangelist. There was so much poverty around, more than what he witnessed in London. He threw himself into his work and literally gave away all he had and ate almost nothing for days. He was later dismissed because of his ‘ excessive zeal ‘ and shabby looks. He lived in poverty for two years, and during these hard two years he came to a personal resolve to be an artist.

Vincent Van Gogh went back home to his parents and worked with the same vigour he had worked as an evangelist, this greatly improved his work and for months he was happier than ever before.
In 1881, Vincent walked away from his father’s house on Christmas Day after a quarrel with his father and moved to The Hague. Before then, there had been signs of instability in his behaviour after another abortive love affair. With little or no money he asked his brother Theo for help, he sent him a meagre sum each month from his own small salary. After much toil and no success he returned home in 1884. His parents had moved to a new church but welcomed him like a lost son. He plunged himself into working on portraits of peasants and came up with his most ambitious picture called Potato Eaters, a sombre paintings of peasants having their evening meal.

His father Pastor Theodorous died in 1885, Vincent left the same year for Holland never to return. He first went to Belgium and enrolled in an academy in Antewerp, but failed his first term of study. He left before the results were declared.

While in Paris he studied for a few months at the studio of an academic painter named Fernand Cormon with another painter Emile Bernard and Toulouse-Lautrec. All three later broke with Cormon for his hostility towards the new impressionist artists Monet, Renoir and Degas whose paintings inspired Gogh.

Through his brother Theo, Vincent met Camille Pissarro one of the elder impressionists and the revolutionary figure Paul Gauguin.

Vincent liked Japanese arts and this influenced his choice of where to live. He moved to Arles-a provincial city near Marseilles in the South of France that he imagined being the equivalent of Japan. While there he rented a two-storied house in a place called Lamartine. The outside walls were yellow-symbolic of friendship in Japanese culture. He delighted with the yellow house, and plunged into his work with a mood of rare happiness, bordering on ecstasy. He was recalled to have written to his brother ‘Ideas, are coming to me in swarms’. Although his strange behaviour and appearance caused some derision among townspeople he managed to strike a genuine relationship with the postman and his family, a local café owner and an army lieutenant.

At the yellow house, Van Gogh worked furiously but he felt secure and full of hope. He felt ready to embark on a project he had long desired: the establishment of an artist’ colony.

He invited his fellow artist Gauguin to come and be part of the colony. A few months after his arrival at the yellow house, they quarrelled fiercely mostly because of Gogh’s untidiness. Vincent threatened Gauguin with a razor that caused Gauguin to flee. Something seemed to snap in Van Gogh in 1888 and he lost self-control. It was said he cut off one of his ears, put it in a envelope and gave it to a prostitute.

He was taken to Arles hospital suffering from hallucinations as well as loss of blood. He was released after two weeks, but over work and a terror of madness brought on a relapse. Vincent Van Gogh never recovered his mental stability.

During this time the townspeople of Arles wrote a petition against him to be put away because he was mad. By the spring of 1889 he had been in Arles a year but had lost all hope. The artist colony had come to nothing. His friends had vanished; the postman had been transferred to another town. Vincent dreaded the return of his insanity so in May 1889 he voluntarily committed himself to an asylum in the nearby town of Saint Remy. He had slowly begun to come to terms with his illness- epilepsy and schizophrenia- a result of brain damage at birth. Although bouts of convulsions and hallucinations reoccurred in three monthly cycles, he still produced some 200 canvases during his year in the asylum.

In 1890 he moved to Auvers, a village northwest of Paris that was popular with artists suggested by Camillie Pissarro. He took a small room in a café and kept regular hours. On Sunday 27th July 1890, Van Gogh walked out of Auvers into the countryside and shot himself in the chest. He returned home late evening and lay awake on the bed and smoking his pipe, Theo his brother arrived after being alerted by the doctor and all through Monday his friends watched over him until one o’clock in the morning. He died in his brother’s arms. He was 37yr old.

Johannes Vermeer 1632 - 1675

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Vermeer was born on 31st October 1632 in Delft, Holland. He was the second of two children of Reyner Janszoon and Digna Balthasars . It was not until 1632 his father began to bear the surname Vermeer. He was a silk worker and later became an innkeeper who also dealt with paintings.

The young Vermeer grow up in an inn and a large house his father bought in 1641, little is known about his early life, he spent most of it in Delft which was Holland’s fourth largest town at that time.

The town had a tradition of painting stretching back to the 15th century, but it has become something of an artistic backwater by the time of Vermeer’s birth. Sometime around 1650, several talented painters settled in the town, and Vermeer’s career coincided with a brief golden period in Delft paintings.

Vermeer is one of the most famous and popular Dutch painters, he was virtually forgotten for two centuries because he spent all his time in Delft where he was an art dealer and an innkeeper, He was an enigmatic figure who was popularly called ‘ the Sphinx of Delft’.

It was not known whom Vermeer studied; Leonard Bramer has often been suggested as a possible candidate. He was one of the famous painters in Delft at the time of Vermeer. It was said that Bramer intervened on Vermeer’s behalf when his future mother in-law, Maria Thins, refused to sign the marriage contract. There are more obvious stylistic links between Vermeer’s work and that of Carel Fabritius who was Rembrandt’s most gifted pupil, and said to have settled also in Delft in 1650 and was a well-known painter in the town.

Vermeer was made a master in painter’s guild on 29th December 1653. It is very likely that Vermeer took over his fathers art business as well. He certainly dealt in paintings and must have had a reputation as a connoisseur. He went to The Hague in 1672 to be and expert witness – the only time recorded that he ever left Delft- in a dispute over the authenticity of some Italian paintings. His famous words during briefing; when he declared that the paintings were“ no outstanding Italian paintings, but on the contrary, great pieces of rubbish”.

In 1662 – 63 and 1670 - 71 was a successful era in Vermeer’s life. He was a highly respected figure among his fellow artists in Deft. During this time, he was known as the hoofman - headman or Governor – of the painters.
Vermeer found himself in financial difficulties from 1672 to his later years; he rented out his house for 180 guilden a year and moved in with his mother-in-law. Later that year, Holland was invaded by the French, which brought economic crisis, and subsequently caused the art market to collapse.

Vermeer had a wife and eleven children, this somehow hindered his output in work, which he did as a part time activity. Only about 35 painting by him are known to survive, but these include some of the most serenely beautiful pictures in the history of art. He produced a small body of work of exceptional beauty and clarity he is best remembered for his gentle scenes of domestic life.

Vermeer died in 1675 at the age of 43, left behind eight under age children and huge financial problems for his widow.
These are some of his paintings

Frans Hals 1582 - 1666,

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Frans Hals was born in Antwerp in 1582, the son of Franchoys Hals, a cloth-worker from Mechelen, and Adriaentgen van Geertenrijck of Antwerp.

The family moved to Haarlem in 1585, when protestant Antwerp fell to invading Spanish forces. Franchoys, Hals father declared himself a catholic in 1585, this was considered a tactical move because The Spanish had re-established Catholicism in Antwerp and the protestants were given four years to settle their affairs and leave.

Like his contemporaries, Franchoys moved north were there was a reformed church and partly for financial reasons too. Following the Spanish victory, the Dutch crippled trade with Antwerp by blocking the entrance of river Scheldt. In the wake of the invasion, over 600 clothe workers and their family including Hals among them migrated to Haarlem which by then had a large textile industry.

Not much was known of Hals early years in Haarlem, the first documented reference on him occurred in 1610, when he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St. Luke. It was said to be the same year he married his wife Annetje Harmansdr, who bore him two children.

His marriage did not last long, for his wife died in 1615. It was said she got a paupers burial which was a good indication of financial difficulties which were to plague Hals for most of his life.
Hals first painting was dated around 1610 which time he must have been 30years old. Harl reached his artistic maturity rather late, it was not until 1616 after the death of his wife he received his first major commission for a group of portrait of the Banquet of the officers of the saint George civic guard company., which was famous for their extensive banquets. In 1621 a law was passed for the banquets to be held for not more than four days.

Hals was a member of the St. George militia, which membership was strictly restricted to the ruling class or the affluent in the society. His experience with the militia offer him a particular sympathy with their ideals, and enabled him to capture their hospitality and comradeship with unusual perceptiveness and skill.

Hals got married again in 1617; Lysbeth Reyniers was a peasant woman with a quarrelsome temper ad was known to engage with brawls. She gave birth to eight children three of whom became painters.
Although, he was undoubtly successful as a portraitist, but his expanding family helped to
Push him further into financial difficulties. Hals was constantly in debt. He undertook occasional picture dealing and restoration coupled with his painting just to make ends meet. He was summoned to court sometime in 1616 for failing to pay maintenance to the guardian of his children from his first marriage, y this time he way away to Antwerp and his mother answered the charge.
The suing didn’t stop there, in the 1630s he was sued several times by his landlord, shoemaker and a local baker seized his property in 1654 for an unpaid bill. The goods he had to surrender was three beds, Pillows, some linen, and oak cupboard a table, and five paintings.

There is some evidence that suggest that Hals difficulties were partly caused by his rebellious and independent spirit. In 1636, when he was in a serious financial trouble he refused to complete a lucrative commission for the portrait of an Amsterdam militia company, called Meagre Company, because he was unwilling to make a rather short journey to Haarlem When the guards refused to come to him, Hals stopped working on the painting and another painter had to be called to complete it.
More trouble followed in 1608 when his brother Joost was fined in Haarlem for insulting the city’s guard and from throwing rock, which injured a passer-by.

In 1640, his second wife gave birth to an illegitimate child and was sent away to a workhouse to improve on her lax morals. Hals himself was said to be an enthusiastic drinker. His biographer Arnold Houbraken wrote “Hals was filled to the gills every evening” and was also said to be a wife-beater.

The 1630 were Hals most successful years; he was in constant demand for a single portrait and family groups. His patrons include men from the highest ranks of the society, the city regents, the civic guards, town councillors, merchants and scholars. Around 1649, he was to paint the famous French philosopher Rene Descartes. He was also running a successful studio. His student includes some of the most distinguished name in Dutch painting, such as his own brother Dirck, Adriaen Brouwer, Judith Leyster was said to have been his pupil, she later sued Frans Hals for accepting a defected pupil.

In 1661, the Guild of St. Luke exempted him from payment of his dues, and in 1662 he petitioned the counsellors for assistance. The following year he was granted an annual subsidy of 200 guilders, and in 1664.Frans Hals died two years later, on 20th. August 1666, over 80 years of age. He was buried in St. Bavois Church in Haarlem.
displayed were some of his works including "the Laughing Cavalier" which was ranked high after Mona Lisa.

John Constable 1776 - 1837

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John Constable was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk on 11th June 1776; he was the fourth of his parent’s six children. His father’s name was Golding, he was a corn merchant who owned wind and water mills in east Bergholt and nearby Dedham. He also owned a land in in the village and a small ship, which was called “the telegraph”, used in transporting corn to London.

Constable was brought up in a wealthy and happy home, he lived a careless childhood, he was sent off to a boarding school in Lavenham where he spent a brief period and was later moved to a day school in Dedham where he was discovered he had interest in drawing.

His father Golden Constable wasn’t so enthusiastic about his son’s interest, and decided to have him trained as a miller.
John spent a years at his work and never took interest in the family business but, he did acquire a thorough knowledge of its workings.

John Constable’s passion for arts was decisively aroused and stimulated by Sir George Beaumont a painter and art fanatic whom he met in 1795.
After seeing one of the paintings owned by Beaumont,” Hagar and the angel” painted by Claude Lorraine, he was convinced of his vocation to be an artist. Afterwards he began to take lessons from an eccentric character known as Antiquity Smith, who also acted as his guide formally introduced him to the world of professional painting .

In 1799 he was admitted the Royal Academy School, which quite pleased his father since he wasn’t showing interest in the family business, and he blessed him with a meagre allowance.

While in London, John Constable worked hard and was much committed to his studies. He was often spotted during the evenings studying and doing his drawings.
He received letters and food baskets from his family ship which kept him current and in contact with the family back in east Bergholt and spent most of his summer there where he converted a cottage into a studio.

John Constable did some travelling around, in 1801; he made a tour of the Peak District in Derbyshire and made a short sea voyage from London to Kent, and visited the Lake District in1806.

At the age of 33, he had more or less mastered his craft, but had not made a success of his career, he had not been elected as an associate in the academy and is not quite a full member, by this time he could not live independently with his meagre earnings from few portraits and commissions

He met and fell in love with Maria Bicknell who was 12 years older than him, she was the grand-daughter of Dr Rhudde, rector of East Bergholt, a formidable who believed his family was rich.
John announcement to marry Maria was met with disdain and threat from Dr Rhudde. John family supported the union so was the Revd John Fisher, a nephew of the bishop of Salisbury.

Jon Constable was frustrated and isolated in London during all this time, these helped to develop a strong vein of obstinacy in character in his later years. It also sharpened his tendency to suffer from depression and moodiness. He was at various said to be hostile and arrogant in his professional dealings which affected the sales of his paintings, but was generous and affectionate to his family and close friends which made his life rather contradictory.

The year 1815, brought many tragedies to john, his mother died which dealt him a great blow, not long after, Maria’s mother died too. These sad events helped to strengthen their resolve and by February 1816 they made up their mind to get married, defying all opposition.

That May, John’s father died, sitting comfortably in his chair. In his will; he made Abraham one of his sons to take over the family business and john was to get £200 every year, with this and his sales from his paintings he able to get married.
After obtaining wordless agreement from Dr Rhudde, John did something astounding, at the last minute, he delayed the marriage while he worked on his painting, on 2nd. October they were married. None of the Bicknell family attended.
Maria later gave birth to their son in1817, in keppel street, Bloomsbury, which overlooked fields and ponds and also close to the British museum.

Marriage and fatherhood seem to release much creativity into Constable. His paintings and works dominated each spring by through exhibitions and slowly added a growth n his reputation.
John and Maria gave birth to four children before she fell fatally ill with Pulmonary tuberculosis, she went ahead to bear him three more children, by this time Maria has become very weak due to her illness. He father died in march 1828 after the birth of her seventh child leaving her with £20,000 in his will, by that summer in November 23rd. Maria died and was buried in Hampstead.

Constable slowly picked up his professional life after his wife death, he was later elected a full academician the next February, and he undertook various projects, publications and engravings. He painted his last picture in 1835 in Suffolk, which was – the valley farm -, it was said, and the buyer of the painting asked him if the painting was painted for someone in particular, “yes sir” constable told him. “It is painted for a very particular person – the person for whom I have all my life painted”.
He died at night on 31st. March 1837 and was buried beside his wife Maria in Hampstead.
Displayed are some of his works, notably – The Hay Wain.

Anthony Van Dyck 1599 - 1641

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Anthony Van Dyck was one of the most famous painters in the history of art. He was born in Antwerp on 22nd. March 1599, the seventh child of Frans Van Dyck and his second wife Maria Cuypers. He lived a luxurious and aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle class background
Van Dyck was highly ambitious, and by 1615 he set up his own studio in Antwerp after leaving van Balen, together with two assistants.

He became very influential because of his dazzling images of the court of Charles I of England, and was one of the most celebrated portraitists for the next 200 years. He was greatly influenced by Ruben whom he had worked with in Antwerp.Ruben’s arts dominated Antwerp during Van Dyck early years, his genus posed and obvious challenge to upcoming painters at the time, that prompted Van Dyck early bid for independence and recognition. He did not only flatter Ruben by his way of dressing but also by emulating his painting style, which he mastered astonishingly.

He had royal patrons from Europe who greatly desired to have a self-portrait. His career spans from Italy, Flanders and England. He perfected the style of aristocratic portraiture that became the model for the court artists all over Europe.
In 1627, Van Dyck returned to Italy to attend his sister’s death, Cornelia. For the next six years he was successful and productive compared to any other time in his career. He was continuously employed by the church for portraits to adorn their enormous architectures.
His paintings were becoming popular and appreciative among English collectors, and Van Dyck was persuaded by the Earl of Aroundel to come to England in 1632.

It was not clear why he left Antwerp after making an astonishing success there, but it was believed he was attracted by the life in the court, and Charles who became king in 1625 had a formidable reputation as a patron of arts. Van Dyck was well treated by the king, his lodging and general welfare was at the expense of the king and, he was granted an annual pension of £ 200.
He was knighted on 5th. Of July 1632 and was presented with a golden chain that was worth £100 the following year. In his house it was recorded by his biographer, he kept servants, musicians, singer and fools.
The king and his courtiers were believed to be demanding patrons and he painted around 30 large portraits of monarchs in 9 years in his specially built landing stage constructed outside his house in Blackfrairs.

He had an astounding stream of commission from the aristocracy and his output of portraits

during these years was truly phenomenal.
Van dyck was said to be attracted to women, “he was tall and well proportioned as well as blond with fair complexioned” wrote his biographer.
In March 1634, Van Dyck returned to Antwerp to visit his family, and bought some property near the Chateau de Steen, the country residence that Ruben purchased the following year before his death in 1640.

Van Dyck , after the death of Ruben made repeated trips to and from his native town, anxious to claim his position as the leading painter in Flanders. Unfortunately, events overtook him and he died in London in 1641. Before his death , in January 1941, he travelled to Paris hoping to gain a major commission from Louis XIII, who was planning to decorate the principal gallery in the Louver, which he was unsuccessful and went back to London
On 9th of December 1641 Van Dycke died from too much pressure from work, his daughter, Justinana, was baptised the same day.
Above are some of Van Dyck paintings.

Judith Leyster 1609 - 1660

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Judith Leyster was born in Harlem, Holland on 28th July 1609. Her father was a weaver turned a successful brewer. Like her brothers and sisters she learned reading, writing and arithmetic and differentiated herself with Painting. she was believed to have been sent to study with a renowned textile merchant called Franz Pietersz de Grebber. Between 1629 to 1636, she competed successfully with the most popular artists of her time. She specialised in lively genre scenes, which she imbued with a special intimacy often using dramatic lighting effect.

Like many Dutch arts of her time, her paintings make a moral observation in a light hearted manner.

Her free brushwork and impulsiveness of her figures was much influenced by her Harlem contemporaries, particularly Franz Hals, with whom she was believed to have studied with.
In 1636, she got married to a fellow artist Jan Molenaer, and laid most of her concentration on domestic and business matters. Her reputation was completely obscured after her death till early in the 19th century she was slowly but decisively rediscovered.
These are few of her work.

Sandro Botticelli 1445 - 1510

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Sandro Bottecelli, born as Allessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi was born in 1445 in Florence. He assumed the nickname Sandro sometime before 1470.

Few facts were known about Botticelli’s early years, but it seems probably that at 13 he was apprenticed to a Goldsmith. He soon decided he wanted to paint, and about 1461 his father sent him to the workshop of Filippo Lippi, a renowned Florentine master who was then working in the Cathedral of Prato just outside the city.
Lippi was specialised in religious paintings and was notorious as the seducer of the Nun Lucrezia Buti. The product of their relationship was a son. He died in 1469.

After several works based on commissions, in 1472 Botticelli had become a member of the Compagnia di San Luca, a charitable confraternity for painters. And by the end of 1473, his reputation had reached Pisa, where he was summoned to paint a Fresco in the cathedral.

Mariano Filipepi (Sandro Botticelli) became one of the most popular artists of the Renaissance; He spent most of his native life in Florence. He was one of the most sought after painters in the city at that time and the head of a thriving art workshop.

Later in Botticelli’s life, his works gained a new emotional intensity, but he later fell out of favour and after his death his paintings were little regarded for centuries. It was only in the mid-19th Century that he was gradually rediscovered and soon afterwards recognised as one of the greatest artist of the age.

These are few of his works

Caravaggio 1571 - 1610

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Caravaggio was born Michelangelo Merisi in 1571 in Milan. He was one the most extraordinary characters in the history of Arts. His career was punctuated by series of acts of physical violence, and he had dealt with several disputes with top religious leaders about on his unconventional attitude towards religious theme.
He established himself in Rome, of course with much of a struggle. In his early 30s he had achieved fame, his dramatic use of light and shade together with uncompromising realism created a new pictorial vocabulary for European art.

At the heights of his career, he fled to Rome after killing a man in a duel, and the rest of his short life was spent restlessly moving from place to place. He died at the age of 38 in absolute poverty.
These are few of his favoured works that I collected over the years.

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