Mexican Baroque painter Sebastián López de Arteaga was adept at Caravaggio’s tenebrism, the incorporation of great contrasts of light and dark for emotional effect. St. Michael is said to have appeared to a bishop, announcing he had sent an arrow shot at a bull by his angry owner hurtling back at the irate archer, an event displayed in the painting’s background.
Saint Michael and the Bull, c.1650, Oil on CanvasSebastian Lopez de Arteaga Spanish (1610 - 1652) |
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Mexican Baroque painter Sebastián López de Arteaga was adept at Caravaggio’s tenebrism, the incorporation of great contrasts of light and dark for emotional effect. St. Michael is said to have appeared to a bishop, announcing he had sent an arrow shot at a bull by his angry owner hurtling back at the irate archer, an event displayed in the painting’s background. |
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