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01-01-2016 | Endocrinology and Art
Maddalena Ventura: an impressive case of hirsutism in a painting of Jusepe De Ribera (1631)
Authors:
C. M. Oranges, M. Matucci-Cerinic
Published in:
Journal of Endocrinological Investigation
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Issue 1/2016
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Excerpt
Jusepe de Ribera (Xàtiva, 1591–Naples, 1652), also called “Spagnoletto”, was a Spanish painter and printmaker. As one of the most prolific interprets of Tenebrism, the style of representing violent contrasts of light and dark, where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image, he is considered one of the greatest followers of the art of Caravaggio and one of the greatest protagonists of European painting of the Seventeenth century. …