Università Roma Tre

Júsepe de Ribera (Játiva, 1591 – Napoli 1652) and the Caravaggio's heritage between Rome and Naples

Last studies about Caravaggio's heritage have hilighted the central role of the spanish painter Júsepe de Ribera. He arrived in Rome in 1606, aged fifteeen, and moved to Naples at the middle of the Seventeenth century where he lived then on and died. The course will focus on the artist's role in the Seventeenth century european painting from three points of view: the critical path about Ribera, completely overturned in the last fifteen years; his roman years in the context of Caravaggio's followers; the artist's most important works in Naples.
The course addresses to specialistic degree students who should know at least Caravaggio's ouvre.
Visits to roman churches and museums as well as a study tour to Naples will be considered part of the course.
The following selected bibliography will be suplemented during the class. Attending the class is highly recommended because of the connoissuer's method adopted.

Selected bibliography
G. Papi, Ribera a Roma, Soncino (CR), 2007.
N. Spinosa, Ribera: l’opera completa, Electa, Napoli 2008.
Il giovane Ribera tra Roma, Parma e Napoli, 1608-1624, catalogo della mostra, a cura di J. Milicua e N. Spinosa (Napoli, Museo di Capodimonte – Madrid, Museo del Prado), Artem, Napoli 2011.
G. Porzio, Ribera between Rome and Naples; new documentary evidence, in “The Burlington Magazine”, 157, 2015, 1351, pp. 682-683.
M.C. Terzaghi, Après Caravage. La scène caravagesque romaine des années 1610-1620, in Nicolas Régnier, catalogo della mostra (Nantes, Musée d’art), a cura di A. Lemoine e A. Colange-Perugi, Lienart éditions Paris, pp. 77-87.