Barbara Longhi

Barbara Longhi (* 1552 in Ravenna, Italy, † 1638 ibid ) was an icon painter of the Counter-Reformation.

Life

Barbara Longhi and her brother Francesco Longhi were taught by her father Luca Longhi in a typical family workshop in painting. The works of the children differed little from those of his father. Later she made primarily as a portrait painter a name. They were particularly impressed by their soft style and gentle brilliance of their colors. From their previously identified fifteen frames are twelve depictions of the Madonna and child. However, few of her pictures are dated. She was inspired. By the legend of Judith from the Apocrypha of the Old Testament to an image Judith with the head of Holofernes Between 1590 and 1605, was probably their most productive time. Barbara Longhi spent your entire life in Ravenna, where she died in 1638.

Works (selection)

  • Virgin with Sleeping Child ( c. 1570 ), Grohs - Collison Collection, Birmingham, Alabama
  • Madonna and Child, which crowns a saint (1590-1595), Louvre, Paris
  • The healing of Agatha ( altarpiece about 1595 ), Santa Maria Maggiore, Ravenna
  • Cappuccini altarpiece ( 1595 ), Nursing Madonna ( 1600-1605 ), Brera, Milan
  • The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, with John the Baptist ( 1600), Museo Biblioteca del Grappa
  • Virgin with Sleeping Child ( 1600-1605 to ), Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
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