Saturday, March 23, 2019

Giovanni Battista Gaulli (1639-1709) - Late Baroque Narratives

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Sacrifice of Issac
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Feed My Sheep
ca. 1700-1705
oil on canvas
Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Joseph recognized by his Brothers
ca. 1690
oil on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
St Francesca Romana giving Alms
1675
oil on canvas
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

"'His manner was powerful, extravagant and altogether beautiful, he need not have envied even the greatest master,' wrote Baciccio's biographer.  Early contact in Genoa with works by Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck influenced Baciccio deeply, as did Genoese painter Bernardo Strozzi's broad, painterly manner and warm palette.  After the plague killed his family in 1657, Baciccio moved to Rome, eventually becoming Gianlorenzo Bernini's protégé.  Seeing Correggio's works in Parma in 1669 gave Baciccio's decorations a heightened illusionism and his easel pictures more tenderness."

– from biographical notes on Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccio) at the Getty Museum

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
St Joseph with Christ Child
ca. 1670-85
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Three Marys at the Sepulchre
1684-85
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Death of St Francis Xavier
before 1709
oil on canvas
Chiesa di San Venanzio, Ascoli Piceno

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Pietà
1667
oil on canvas
Palazzo Barberini, Rome

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon
ca. 1695
oil on canvas
Musée départemental de l'Oise, Beauvais

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Rinaldo and Armida
ca. 1680-85
oil on canvas
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Narcissus
ca. 1660-1700
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Flora
before 1709
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Sacrifice of Noah
ca. 1670-75
drawing (study for painting)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Giovanni Battista Gaulli
St Augustine's Vision of the Trinity
before 1709
drawing (study for print)
British Museum