Ribera: Ténèbres et lumière. Collections – Expositions “The purpose of this work

“The purpose of this work is to present the pictorial “writing” of the religion linked to the Great Goddess of old Europe

A drawing technique developed in the Middle Ages and popularized by great masters such as Dürer and Rembrandt

but also mesmerism and angels

from Ovid to Bashô

among the sources consulted

Ribera: Ténèbres et lumière. Collections – Expositions “The purpose of this workThe Petit Palais hosts the first French retrospective of the painter Jos de Ribera (1591 1652). His artistic training is still controversial, but his presence is attested in Parma in 1611, when he was only twenty years old. His genius was already beyond doubt, and he established himself as one of the most brilliant painters of his time. But it was in Rome, which he arrived in 1616, that his talent truly shone, when he discovered the painting of