Our eyes listen in revulsion as discordant notes are shredded from the wrenched body of Marsyas, which Ribera has laid out before the god of art and music like a howling harmonium. “Every detail ...

Michelangelo’s iconic God the Father image, painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, draws on the Hebrew Bible’s patriarchal God tradition. In Deuteronomy 32:6 Moses explicitly refers to God as ...

Saint-Bavo’s Cathedral Ghent Art historians are divided over whether the artist intended to represent God the Son or God the Father The next phase of the restoration concentrates on the upper ...

Ribera’s 1637 painting of the flaying of a satyr who rashly challenged the god, which is being lent by the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples, provides the finale of the show.

In the middle of the 17th century, the Neapolitan artist Salvator Rosa wrote a satirical poem about painting ... for the love of God. Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) is a master of rough glory ...

Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of ... The horizontal axis is prominent in Ribera’s painting. Dark colors and large figures (even if ...

Our eyes listen in revulsion as discordant notes are shredded from the wrenched body of Marsyas, which Ribera has laid out before the god of art and music like a howling harmonium. “Every detail ...