de la Tour The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, 1635 Tutt'Art Masterpieces


de la Tour The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, 1635 Tutt'Art Masterpieces

Georges de La Tour (1593 - 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious scenes lit by candlelight and specialized in Chiaroscuro compositions, using sharp contrasts between light and dark.


de la Tour Dominique Artis Photographie

Introduction. Georges de La Tour's (b. 1593-d. 1652) artistic contributions were largely ignored by posterity until his "rediscovery" in 1915 by the art historian Hermann Voss. The patronage of such luminaries as the Duke of Lorraine, King Louis XIII , and Cardinal Richelieu, and the plethora of early copies, attest to his success.


La Tour, de Museo Nacional del Prado

Georges de La Tour (1593 - 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious scenes lit by candlelight and specialized in Chiaroscuro compositions, using sharp contrasts between light and dark.


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Georges de La Tour French probably 1630s On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 622 Darting eyes and busy hands create a captivating narrative between otherwise staid figures, each of which is richly clothed in meticulously painted combinations of color and texture.


de La Tour. 1593 1652 Exhibition Museo Nacional del Prado

The Penitent Magdalen Georges de La Tour French ca. 1640 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 622 With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, pared-down geometry, and meditative mood, this painting exemplifies La Tour's painting at its most accomplished and characteristic.


de la tour, the cheat, 1635 (detail) Dessin magnifique, Musées nationaux, Beaux arts

Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 - January 30, 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.


The fortune teller, de La Tour, 16331639 La buenaventura, Geroges de La Tour, 16331639

Georges de La Tour (13 March 1593 - 30 January 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight. Personal life


Le Nouveauné, de De la Tour Bretagne Musées

Georges de La Tour, (born March 19, 1593, Vic-sur-Seille, Lorraine, France—died Jan. 30, 1652, Lunéville), painter, mostly of candlelit subjects, who was well known in his own time but then forgotten until well into the 20th century, when the identification of many formerly misattributed works established his modern reputation as a giant of Fren.


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It is one of the gnawing anomalies of art scholarship that Georges de La Tour was "lost" for nearly three centuries and yet with us all the time. His luminous paintings were on view in.


de La Tour the contrast between day and night

The Fortune Teller is an oil painting of circa 1630 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. The work was uncovered in about 1960 and purchased that year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.


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George de La Tour (1593-1652), today considered a figure of commanding importance in French 17th-century painting, is best known for his mystical night scenes. Highly successful in his lifetime as a painter in Lorraine whose work was also known and admired at the court of Louis XIII, Georges de La Tour was virtually forgotten after his death.


de la Tour The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, 1635 Tutt'Art Masterpieces

Georges de La Tour was a French painter of the Baroque period known for his meditative candlelit scenes. View Georges de La Tour's artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.


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In Georges de La Tour's somber canvas Mary is shown in profile seated at a table. A candle is the source of light in the composition, but the light also carries a spiritual meaning as it casts a golden glow on the saint's face and the objects assembled on the table. The candle light silhouettes Mary's left hand which rests on a skull that is.


de La Tour The penitent Magdalene, 1640 Tutt'Art Pittura * Scultura * Poesia * Musica

Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.


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One of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century French art, Georges de La Tour's Cheat with the Ace of Clubs takes as its subject the danger of indulgence in wine, women, and gambling. While the theme harks back to Caravaggio's influential Cardsharps, also in the Kimbell, the roots of this engaging morality play can be traced to earlier representations of the biblical subject of.


de La Tour Baroque painter, candlelight scenes, religious works Britannica

The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour (France, Vic-sur-Seille, 1593-1652), circa 1635-37, Paintings, Oil on canvas, Although Georges de La Tour spent his entire artistic career in provincial France, far from cosmopolitan centers and artistic influences, he developed a poignant style as profound as the most illustrious painters of his day.