A Caravaggesque 'Christ' in Scotland

• Autores: John Gash
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 151, Nº 1279, 2009, págs. 682-690
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Christ displaying his wounds, an impressive unpublished painting in the Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Scotland, is a significant addition to the Caravaggesque canon. The painting might appear to represent Christ as seen in Caravaggio's Incredulity of St.Thomas, to which it is conceptually close, but casts the viewer provocatively in the role of Doubting Thomas. The intense realism and dramatic directness that give the painting such a radical edge, even within the Caravaggesque movement, are, however, combined with a slightly idealized and somewhat sentimental facial expression and a superlative feeling for the geometry of form, worthy of Caravaggio himself. The writer describes the painting and its condition and before examining what is known of its provenance and speculating on the identity of its painter.