Italian painter. He is best known for his small-scale paintings
illustrating the Parables (1618–21), painted in Mantua while he
was court painter to Ferdinando Gonzaga. He was also a fine portrait
painter. The great traditions of 16th-century Venetian art were his
inspiration, yet he created a highly original, modern style in broadly
handled paintings that glow with warm Venetian colour and vibrant light.
Light was of paramount importance to him, and the radiant angel that
features in many pictures, for example in Jacob’s Dream (Vienna,
Ksthist. Mus.), represents light itself. A sense of melancholy pervades
his art, its recurrent themes being visions, dreams and scenes of
lamentation.
Portrait of a Scholar
Oil on canvas, 98 x 73,5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Adoration of the Shepherds Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Moses before the Burning Bush
1613-14
Oil on canvas, 168 x 112 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Parable of the Lost Drachma
1618-22
Oil on wood, 55 x 44 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Portrait of an Actor
1623
Oil on canvas, 105,5 x 81 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Parable of the Good Samaritan
c. 1623
Oil an canvas, 61 x 45 cm
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Sleeping Girl
c. 1615
Oil on canvas, 67,5 x 74 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Tobias Healing his Father
1620-23
Oil on canvas, 66,7 x 85 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
La parabola del sembrador
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