TOURNIER, Nicolas
(b. 1590, Montbéliard, d. ca. 1638, Toulouse)

Denial of St Peter

c. 1625
Oil on canvas, 171 x 252 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Tournier was the pupil of Valentin de Boulogne, a French Caravaggesque painter. He counteracted the Baroque use of light with a very personal and static way of handling figures with serene evenness of movement, a certain harmonius moderation in the relations between gesture, expression and sentiment, whose equilibrium, which might almost be called classical, is similar to the Gothic statuary.




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