Domenico De Lucia (XXI) - Noè Studio
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Noè Studio is a 2025 oil on canvas study by Domenico De Lucia (XXI) from Italy, 60 × 40 cm, hand-signed, in excellent condition, depicting a religious subject focused on Noah’s face in a Caravaggisti idiom.
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The work is an oil painting study that takes as its iconographic reference Jusepe de Ribera's Noah (1591–1652), part of the famous cycle of the Prophets created for the Certosa di San Martino in Naples, where the original painting is located in a lunette inside the monastic complex.
The study focuses on the face of the patriarch, isolating its expressive intensity and psychological strength, central elements of the Riberesca poetics. The depiction of the face, marked by time and suffering, conveys the dramatic tension typical of seventeenth-century naturalism, in which the sacredness manifests through the concrete and human physicality of the subject.
The artist reinterprets the historical model not as a copy, but as an exercise in pictorial analysis and interpretation, focusing on the construction of light, deep chiaroscuro, and the chromatic material that sculpts the features of the face. The result is an autonomous work that dialogues with the baroque tradition, highlighting the studio's capacity as a tool for knowledge, memory, and continuity of the pictorial language.
Technique: oil on canvas
Subject: Study of Noah by Jusepe de Ribera
Original reference: Certosa di San Martino, Naples
The work is an oil painting study that takes as its iconographic reference Jusepe de Ribera's Noah (1591–1652), part of the famous cycle of the Prophets created for the Certosa di San Martino in Naples, where the original painting is located in a lunette inside the monastic complex.
The study focuses on the face of the patriarch, isolating its expressive intensity and psychological strength, central elements of the Riberesca poetics. The depiction of the face, marked by time and suffering, conveys the dramatic tension typical of seventeenth-century naturalism, in which the sacredness manifests through the concrete and human physicality of the subject.
The artist reinterprets the historical model not as a copy, but as an exercise in pictorial analysis and interpretation, focusing on the construction of light, deep chiaroscuro, and the chromatic material that sculpts the features of the face. The result is an autonomous work that dialogues with the baroque tradition, highlighting the studio's capacity as a tool for knowledge, memory, and continuity of the pictorial language.
Technique: oil on canvas
Subject: Study of Noah by Jusepe de Ribera
Original reference: Certosa di San Martino, Naples
Details
Artist
Domenico De Lucia (XXI)
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Edition
Original
Title of artwork
Noè Studio
Technique
Oil painting
Signature
Hand signed
Country of Origin
Italy
Year
2025
Condition
Excellent condition
Height
60 cm
Width
40 cm
Weight
0.6 kg
Depiction/Theme
Religion
Style
Caravaggisti
Period
2020+
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