Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Giovanni Battista Langetti (1635-1676) - Genoa, Rome, Venice

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Joseph interpreting the Prisoner's Dream
before 1676
oil on canvas
Brukenthal National Museum, Romania

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Isaac blessing Jacob
ca. 1660-75
oil on canvas
Brukenthal National Museum, Romania

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Diogenes and Alexander the Great
ca. 1650
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia, Venice

"Born in Genoa, Giovanni Battista Langetti was orphaned at an early age and raised in the family of painter Giovanni Battista Carlone.  Langetti and Carlone are both documented in Rome shortly after 1650, working within the orbit of Pietro da Cortona.  During the second half of the 1650s Langetti moved to Venice, frequenting the workshop of another Genoese painter, Giovanni Francesco Cassana.  Langetti was quickly accepted in Venice as a leading tenebrist artist and settled there for the remaining two decades of his short life.  He specialised in easel paintings with images of Biblical heroes, prophets, half-nude Titans and philosophers – attuned to the neo-Stoic culture then current in the Veneto – further emphasising their expressive and tragic aspects through the use of intense chiaroscuro."  

– adapted from biographical notes published by Maison d'Art in Monaco

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Samson
ca. 1660-75
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Tityus
ca. 1660-65
oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Hercules slaying Cacus
ca. 1660-75
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Job lamenting to his Wife
ca. 1660-75
oil on canvas
private collection

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Mary Magdalene at the Foot of the Cross
ca. 1663
oil on canvas
Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Death of Cato
before 1676
oil on canvas
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Vision of St Jerome
ca. 1660
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Ecce Homo
ca. 1650-60
oil on canvas
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Apollo and Marsyas
ca. 1660-75
oil on canvas
private collection

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Tantalus
before 1676
oil on canvas
private collection

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Death of Cato
before 1676
oil on canvas
private collection

Giovanni Battista Langetti
Ixion
before 1676
oil on canvas
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico