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| Tanzio da Varallo David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1617-24 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica di Varallo |
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| Tanzio da Varallo David with the Head of Goliath ca. 1625 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Civica di Varallo |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Bozzetto for The Battle of Sennacherib ca. 1629-30 oil on canvas Collezione Banca Popolare di Novara |
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| Tanzio da Varallo The Battle of Sennacherib ca. 1629-30 oil on canvas Basilica di San Guadenzio, Novara |
"A word must be said about Tanzio, the most temperamental, tense, and violent of this group of Milanese artists. It is now fairly certain that he was in Rome some time between 1610 and 1615. The impact of Caravaggismo . . . seems to have kept a hold on him, as later pictures attest, among them the obsessed-looking David with the enormous polished sword and the almost obscene head of Goliath, and the most extraordinary Battle of Sennacherib, where an uncompromising realism is transmuted into a ghostlike drama with frightfully distorted figures which seem petrified in permanence."
– Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, originally published in 1958, revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu and reissued by Yale University Press in 1999
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| Tanzio da Varallo St Sebastian 1620-30 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Tanzio da Varallo St John the Baptist ca. 1618 oil on canvas Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio |
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| Tanzio da Varallo St Jerome 1624-26 oil on canvas Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Adoration of the Shepherds, with St Carlo Borromeo and St Francis ca. 1628 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Martyrdom of Franciscan Friars in Nagasaki ca. 1625-32 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Rest on the Flight into Egypt ca. 1625-30 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Portrait of a Lady ca. 1613-16 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1613-16 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1615 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Portrait of a Gentleman ca. 1620 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art (Ohio) |
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| Tanzio da Varallo Portrait of a Gentleman 1623 oil on canvas private collection |