Saint Mark
Baroque
1624
120.0 x 146.0 cm
Saint Mark is shown with his emblem, a lion, as though interrupted in his dim study by the viewer, to whom he makes a beseeching gesture. This model, too, reappears in other paintings by the artist (including Last Supper, in this gallery). Together with Saint Matthew, on view here, and two companion pictures of the other evangelists, this painting—cleaned for the exhibition—was chosen by Louis XIV to decorate his chamber at Versailles, which it still does; it has been lent exceptionally.
Valentin De Boulogne (1591 – 1632)
Explore Valentin de Boulogne’s tenebrist paintings! Ce peintre français est célèbre pour ses contrastes saisissants entre lumière et obscurité, une influence majeure du Caravage et des scènes dramatiques évoquant la foi.
À propos de cette œuvre
- Titre: Saint Mark
- Artiste: Valentin De Boulogne
- Année: 1624
- Dimensions originales: 120.0 x 146.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Statut du droit d'auteur: Domaine public
- Mouvement: Baroque
- Période de création: Mature Period
- Contexte du corpus: versailles chamber décor, symbolic lion imagery
- Mots-clés: saint mark painting, “apostle saint mark”, 17th century art
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