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Charity
(1615-1620)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
206.0 × 101.6 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1954
Gallery location
16th & 17th Century Gallery - Painting and Sculpture
Mezzanine linked to Level 1, NGV International
About this work
Born in Verona, Alessandro Turchi undertook early training in Venice and appears to have been working in Rome by 1615. At this time the influence of Caravaggio’s revolutionary approach to religious art was still being felt strongly. Ripples from his shocking new realism can be discerned here, both in Turchi’s confinement of the dramatically lit figures to a dark shallow stage and in his choice of a handsome but perfectly everyday womanas his model for Charity.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Verona, Veneto, Italy
Accession Number
3077-4
Department
International Painting
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