The Spanish painter is among the highest Caravaggesque expressions in Naples, in the full seventeenth century. Ribera portrays the Saint from the waist up and, as often happens in his painting, reinforces the expressive data especially in the face, with the eyes turned upwards and the lips parted. From the dark background the iconographic attributes of the Saint are barely recognizable: the stick and the bell. The Caravaggesque technique is taken to its extreme consequences by means of flashes of light that thicken up on the pictorial surface.
Title: Sant'Antonio Abate
Author: Jusepe de Ribera
Date: 1650
Technique: Oil painting on canvas
Displayed in: Pio Monte della Misericordia
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