Dirck van Baburen -
Dirck van Baburen was a Dutchman originally named Theodore Baburen. He was born in 1590. He was an artist who preferred subjects from every day life. He was very much influenced by Caravaggio, an Italian painter. In 1612, Dirck traveled to Rome. While there, he was commissioned to decorate the chapel in the Church of San Pietro, located in Montorio, Rome. His style has been said to be "broad and forceful", yet is separated from other painters similar to him because of his irregular compositional rhythms, unrefined conception, and lack of atmospheric quality. He died in 1624. Christ on the Mount of Olives, by Dirck van Baburen, was painted in 1620. The painting, made of oil on canvas, is 146.8 cm by 316.6 cm. One production of the painting is a digital image, located on the website for the Internet museum of the University of Michigan. The foreground of this image includes the three men on the left side, and the plants on the bottom right. The illusions of depth are used well to show that the three men are not on the same plane or spot in the painting, but rather are all in different proximity to the viewer. This is depicted well through means of overlapping. In the background is Jesus with an angel, who is in t
Overall, the picture is very complete. It is a very serious image, in that it mirrors an event that really took place some 2000 years ago. Jesus is praying to God in the Garden of Gethsemane, which is located on the Mount of Olives. Included in this picture is an angel that is there with Him. An interesting note about the angel is that it is holding a cup in its hand, representing the prayer that Jesus spoke when he asked the Father if it was possible to take the cup from him in asking His will to be done. The three men are the disciples that went with Jesus to pray. This picture shows that two of the three are asleep, or very close to it, while the other looks bored and about to sleep as well. The artist puts us right with the people in the picture by making it appear that we are standing but a few feet from the disciples, watching what's taking place. As far as colors go, most of the colors in the composition are dull. There are a lot of brown, black, and other dark colors. These colors give a somber mood to the picture because there is no apparent life implied through these colors. There is some glimmer of life on the left side of the picture though. The gold of the skin of the men bring life and attention to them, making them a noticeable part of the
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