École Espagnole (XIX) - Prométhée (D'après Joseph de Ribera)

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas. Informative label on the back.

- The earthly tenebrism and the anatomical crude realism of the Furies by José de Ribera operated like a magnetizing spell for Spanish painting in the 19th century, obsessed with redefining its identity through realism and the tragic vein of the Baroque. Artists of the nineteenth century, fascinated by Tacitus’s pathos or Sisyphus’s torment, rediscovered in the Spagnoletto master an expressive violence and a mastery of chiaroscuro that served as an antidote to cold academicism. This fascination with monumental sorrow and the sublimation of corporeal suffering left a deep mark on history painting and on dramatic-themed canvases by authors such as Eduardo Rosales or Francisco Pradilla, who assimilated that dense brushwork and that violent illumination to endow their compositions with psychological intensity and a deeply Spanish carnality of truth.

- Image dimensions without frame: 44 x 31 cm / 56 x 43.5 cm with exclusive custom frame.

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