Bernardo Strozzi

Bernardo Strozzi (1581 - 02/08/1644, the [Venice])

Strozzi, Bernard (Strozzi, Bernardo) (1581-1644), Italian painter, one of the leaders of Baroque painting.

Born in Genoa in 1581. He studied at the painters Charles Korte and P. Sorry. In 1610 left the monastery, preserving ordained and received permission to work in the world to support the family. In 1630 (when his mother died), not wanting to return to the monastery, he moved to Venice, where he earned the nickname 'Genoese priest' (il prete Genovese).

. Having absorbed the influence of mannerism, karavadzhizma and Flemish paintings and Venetian Colorism, has developed his own colorful style, which soon became more and more temperamental, and dynamic
. From early, . dark, . almost monochrome things (St Francis at prayer, . 1600-ies, . Gallery of Palazzo Bianco, . Genoa) went to the free manner of, . with large, . vibrant and strong smear colorful contrasts, . stresses the key points of the picture of the plot,
. Among his finest religious compositions - Virgin and Child, . St. Lawrence and the young John the Baptist (1629, . Church Sordomuti, . Genoa), . Saint Sebastian, under care of St. Irene (Church of San Benedetto, . Venice), . St. Lawrence, . distributing good church (Church of San Nicolo dei Tolentino, . Venice, both the end of 1630-ies), . Rebecca and Eleazar at the well (1640-ies, . Gallery 'Old Masters', . Dresden).,

. Served as a portraitist (Cardinal Correr F., . 1630, . Museo Correr, . Venice), . was a remarkable master of the genre-tipazhnogo portrait (Cook, . 1559, . Gallery of Palazzo Bianco, . Genoa, and Lyutnistka, . after 1640, . Kunsthistorisches Museum, . Vienna, . - Belong to his masterpiece), . as well as genre and allegorical paintings (old coquette, . 1630-ies, . State Museum of Fine Arts named after AS Pushkin, . Moscow).,

. Died Strozzi in Venice on Aug. 2, 1644.