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| Cerci |
The other day – when I was looking at images of Circe that might work with the poem by John Fowles – the runner-up choice was the poison-brewing (or "wine-mulling") Circe above, painted by Gioacchino Assereto (1600-1649), an Italian Baroque artist previously unknown to me. I started looking at other Asseretos and getting more interested. Though Caravaggio had died in 1610, his influence was obviously still strong in the 1630s and 40s when Assereto was active. I like the way this forgotten painter's puppet-like figures tend always to be forcing their way toward the foreground, as if spiraling toward the viewer.
No book has yet been written about Gioacchino Assereto. Personally (if I were younger and richer) the project of researching and writing such a book would sound tempting.
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| Isaac Blessing Jacob |
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| St Mark the Evangelist |
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| Perseus Freeing Andomeda |
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| Tantalus |
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| Lot and His Daughters |
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| Lamentation |
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| Sacrifice of Isaac |