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Georges de La Tour was a French painter of the Baroque period known for his meditative candlelit scenes. View Georges de La Tour's artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
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Georges de La Tour was a French Chiaroscuro Artist born on March 13, 1593. de La Tour contributed to the Baroque movement and died on January 30, 1652. The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs 1630 - 1634 The Fortune Teller 1633 - 1639 The Magdalene with the Smoking Flame 1638 - 1640 The Newborn Christ 1640 The Penitent Magdalene 1640
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The Penitent Magdalen Georges de La Tour French ca. 1640 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 622 With its extreme contrasts of candlelight and shadow, pared-down geometry, and meditative mood, this painting exemplifies La Tour's painting at its most accomplished and characteristic.
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Georges de La Tour (1593 - 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious scenes lit by candlelight and specialized in Chiaroscuro compositions, using sharp contrasts between light and dark.
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On her lap is a skull, a memento mori or 'reminder of death': all earthly life will end before the Last Judgement will cleanse all of the truly penitent of their sins. de la Tour painted this sometime around 1625-50. Georges de la Tour's The Penitent Magdalene is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, United States.
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Introduction. Georges de La Tour's (b. 1593-d. 1652) artistic contributions were largely ignored by posterity until his "rediscovery" in 1915 by the art historian Hermann Voss. The patronage of such luminaries as the Duke of Lorraine, King Louis XIII , and Cardinal Richelieu, and the plethora of early copies, attest to his success.
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Georges de La Tour (13 March 1593 - 30 January 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight. Personal life
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It is one of the gnawing anomalies of art scholarship that Georges de La Tour was "lost" for nearly three centuries and yet with us all the time. His luminous paintings were on view in.
de la Tour The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, 1635 Tutt'Art Masterpieces
One of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century French art, Georges de La Tour's Cheat with the Ace of Clubs takes as its subject the danger of indulgence in wine, women, and gambling. While the theme harks back to Caravaggio's influential Cardsharps, also in the Kimbell, the roots of this engaging morality play can be traced to earlier representations of the biblical subject of.
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Georges de La Tour French probably 1630s On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 622 Darting eyes and busy hands create a captivating narrative between otherwise staid figures, each of which is richly clothed in meticulously painted combinations of color and texture.
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Georges de La Tour (1593 - 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious scenes lit by candlelight and specialized in Chiaroscuro compositions, using sharp contrasts between light and dark.
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The Fortune Teller is an oil painting of circa 1630 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. The work was uncovered in about 1960 and purchased that year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The fortune teller, de La Tour, 16331639 La buenaventura, Geroges de La Tour, 16331639
Georges de La Tour, (born March 19, 1593, Vic-sur-Seille, Lorraine, France—died Jan. 30, 1652, Lunéville), painter, mostly of candlelit subjects, who was well known in his own time but then forgotten until well into the 20th century, when the identification of many formerly misattributed works established his modern reputation as a giant of Fren.
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Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
de la tour, the cheat, 1635 (detail) Dessin magnifique, Musées nationaux, Beaux arts
In Georges de La Tour's somber canvas Mary is shown in profile seated at a table. A candle is the source of light in the composition, but the light also carries a spiritual meaning as it casts a golden glow on the saint's face and the objects assembled on the table. The candle light silhouettes Mary's left hand which rests on a skull that is.
de La Tour. 1593 1652 Exhibition Museo Nacional del Prado
The Magdalen with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour (France, Vic-sur-Seille, 1593-1652), circa 1635-37, Paintings, Oil on canvas, Although Georges de La Tour spent his entire artistic career in provincial France, far from cosmopolitan centers and artistic influences, he developed a poignant style as profound as the most illustrious painters of his day.
