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| Domenichino Abraham leading Isaac to Sacrifice 1602 oil on copper Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Domenichino Lamentation 1603 oil on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
"Together with his fellow northern Italian painters, Guido Reni, Francesco Albani, Giovanni Lanfranco and Guercino, Domenico Zampieri – known after his small stature as Domenichino – is one of the towering figures of seventeenth-century painting. Indeed, until the mid-nineteenth century, his reputation stood second only to that of Raphael, and his influence far outstripped that of Caravaggio, with whose work his own was often contrasted. Domenichino was trained in Bologna, where he joined the academy founded by the Carracci. Reni and Albani were fellow pupils. Like them, he moved to Rome in 1602 to assist Annibale Carracci in the completion of the gallery of Palazzo Farnese – a formative experience. Domenichino became Annibale's favorite assistant, and it was during his first years in Rome that he translated some of Annibale's ideas into paint: his Lamentation [directly above] is a fine example of the new classicism that blends an exquisite technique with carefully calibrated compositions and a formal repertory of gesture to convey emotion (what contemporaries referred to as the affetti)."
"Domenichino was a brilliant draftsman and always began his compositions with careful studies from posed models. But he believed firmly that nature was only the starting point for art, which need to be transformed into a higher realm: one that would not be subject to the imperfections and transience of everyday life. One of his guideposts was the sculpture of antiquity, which he studied for its mastery of proportions and the idealization of the human form, as well as the vigorous gestures it incorporated. His finely constructed yet atmospheric landscapes laid the groundwork for the ideal, classical landscapes of Claude Lorrain. Their point was to create a mood, not to transcribe a casual view."
– from an essay by Keith Christiansen on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum
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| Domenichino Triumphal Arch of Allegories ca. 1607-1610 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Domenichino Adoration of the Shepherds ca. 1607-1610 oil on canvas National Galleries of Scotland |
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| Domenichino Landscape with Burning Bush ca. 1610-15 oil on copper Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Domenichino The Way to Calvary 1610 oil on copper Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Domenichino Landscape with St John baptizing ca. 1615-20 oil on canvas Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| Domenichino Diana and her Nymphs 1616-17 oil on canvas Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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| Domenichino Mary Magdalene taken to Heaven ca. 1620 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Domenichino St Agnes ca. 1620 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Domenichino Erminia among the Shepherds ca. 1622-25 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |
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| Domenichino Sacrifice of Isaac 1627-28 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Domenichino Study for Figure of Christ ca. 1631-33 drawing (study for fresco) Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Domenichino Youth crouched on the Ground before 1641 drawing British Museum |