Tuesday, February 23, 2016

European paintings with two dominating colors

Paolo Veronese
Venus and Adonis
ca. 1580
Prado

Caravaggio
Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew
ca. 1603-05
Royal Collection, Great Britain
Acquired by Charles I

Yesterday the textile-driven dye-path pursued itself across paintings dominated by a single dominating color. Today's variation requires canvases that feature two or three strong solids struggling against each other for chromatic dominance.  

Carlos de Ribera
Magdalena Parrella and her daughter Elisa Tapia
1850
Prado

Michael Sweerts
Clothing the naked
ca. 1661
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jacopo Tintoretto
The Finding of Moses
ca. 1552-55
Prado

attributed to Titian
The Lovers
ca. 1510
Royal Collection, Great Britain
acquired by Charles I

Guercino
St Peter Freed by an Angel
ca. 1622
Prado

Simon Vouet
The Muses Urania and Calliope
ca. 1634
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Alonso Cano
Two archetypal Kings of Spain
1642
Prado

Italian painter
Abraham and the Three Angels
16th century
Prado

Correggio
Noli me tangere
ca. 1525
Prado

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée
Cupid and  Psyche
1770s
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Anthony van Dyck
Mystic Marriage of St Catherine
ca. 1618-20
Prado

Carlo Dolci
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
ca. 1665-70
Royal Collection, Great Britain