Resumen de Dirck van Baburen's 'Achilles before the dead body of Patroclus' acquired by the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel
The writer discusses Achilles before the dead body of Patroclus,a major work by Dirck van Baburen acquired by the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Kassel, Germany, in 2009. He discusses various aspects of the work, including its provenance, its subject, how Baburen conveys the drama of the event depicted, how Baburen came to this subject, and who perhaps commissioned it.
