Jusepe de Ribera

The "young Spaniard working in the manner of Caravaggio" was causing the Bolognese artists concern, Lodovico Carracci wrote admiringly of Jusepe de Ribera in 1618. Ribera (b. 1591, Játiva, Spain - d. 1652, Naples), second son of a Valencian shoemaker, had only been in Italy about four years and was already making a splash. After working in Rome and Parma in 1616, Ribera...