FETTI, Domenico
(b. ca. 1589, Roma, d. 1623, Venezia)

Parable of the Good Samaritan

1610-23
Oil an wood, 60 x 44 cm
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

While Caravaggio's influence can be detected in Fetti's naturalistic way of depicting the figures and the use of a pronounced chiaroscuro, Fetti's style is closest to the Venetian school in his use of colour and his conception of landscape, as well as in his loose brushstroke.




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