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Baroque and Rococo
Domenico Fetti
Domenico Fetti
(b ?Rome, 1588 or 1589; d Venice, 16 April 1623).
Italian painter. He is best known for his small-scale paintings illustrating the Parables (1618–21), painted in Mantua while he was court painter to Ferdinando Gonzaga. He was also a fine portrait painter. The great traditions of 16th-century Venetian art were his inspiration, yet he created a highly original, modern style in broadly handled paintings that glow with warm Venetian colour and vibrant light. Light was of paramount importance to him, and the radiant angel that features in many pictures, for example in Jacob’s Dream (Vienna, Ksthist. Mus.), represents light itself. A sense of melancholy pervades his art, its recurrent themes being visions, dreams and scenes of lamentation.
Portrait of a Scholar
Oil on canvas, 98 x 73,5 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Adoration of the Shepherds
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
