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| Nicolas Régnier St John the Baptist in the Wilderness ca. 1615-20 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Curators at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg place this group of 17th-century Italian paintings within a so-called "Roman School" whose practitioners were committed to the most advanced and adventurous taste, as understood in their day. After the death of Caravaggio in 1610, many Roman artists successfully adapted the same range of pictorial idiosyncracies he had brought into fashion.
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| Nicolas Régnier Apollo ca. 1615-20 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Nicolas Tournier Lute Player mid-17th century oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giovanni Lanfranco Annunciation ca. 1615-16 oil on copper Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Antiveduto Grammatica Mary Magdalene at the Empty Tomb ca. 1620-25 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Follower of Caravaggio Bacchus ca. 1615-30 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Orazio Gentileschi Cupid and Psyche before 1639 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Domenico Fetti Burial of an Executed Criminal before 1623 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Domenico Fetti Healing of Tobit 1621-22 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino St Clare at the Siege of Assisi before 1640 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Peteresburg |
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| Pier Francesco Mola The Prodigal Son ca. 1645-50 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pier Francesco Mola St Jerome ca. 1652 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pier Francesco Mola Landscape with figures ca. 1645-47 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Pier Francesco Mola Narcissus ca. 1645-47 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
I am grateful to the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg for making reproductions available.