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[[Image:Minniti01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''The Five Signs'', workshop of Mario Minniti, showing characteristic Caravaggistic [[chiaroscuro]] and use of colour. Agira (Enna), Sicily - Church of San Antonio]] |
[[Image:Minniti01.jpg|thumb|right|250px|''The Five Signs'', workshop of Mario Minniti, showing characteristic Caravaggistic [[chiaroscuro]] and use of colour. Agira (Enna), Sicily - Church of San Antonio]] |
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'''Mario Minniti''' ([[18 December]] [[1577]] – [[22 November]] [[1640]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] artist active in Sicily after 1606. Born in [[Syracuse]], Sicily, he arrived in [[Rome]] in 1573, where he became the friend, collaborator and model of the key [[Baroque]] painter Michelangelo Merisi da [[Caravaggio]] (1571-1610). His main fame today is his identification, or proposed identification, as a model in many of Caravaggio's early works, including ''[[Boy with a Basket of |
'''Mario Minniti''' ([[18 December]] [[1577]] – [[22 November]] [[1640]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] artist active in Sicily after 1606. Born in [[Syracuse]], Sicily, he arrived in [[Rome]] in 1573, where he became the friend, collaborator and model of the key [[Baroque]] painter Michelangelo Merisi da [[Caravaggio]] (1571-1610). His main fame today is his identification, or proposed identification, as a model in many of Caravaggio's early works, including ''[[Boy with a Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio)|Boy with a Basket of Fruit]]'', ''[[The Fortune Teller (Caravaggio)|The Fortune Teller]]'', ''[[Cardsharps (Caravaggio)|Cardsharps]]'', ''[[The Musicians (Caravaggio)|The Musicians]]'', ''[[Boy Bitten by a Lizard (Caravaggio)|Boy Bitten by a Lizard]]'' (probable), ''[[Bacchus (Caravaggio)|Bacchus]]'', ''[[The Lute Player (Caravaggio)|The Lute Player]]'', ''[[The Calling of Saint Matthew (Caravaggio)|The Calling of Saint Matthew]]'', and ''[[The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew (Caravaggio)|The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew]]''. |
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He ceases to appear as a model after about 1600, when he is believed to have married, but he evidently continued to associate with Caravaggio after that. In 1606 he was involved with Caravaggio and others in the street brawl which resulted in the death of Ranuccio Tomassoni at Caravaggio's hands, as a result of which Minniti fled to Syracuse. He was eventually pardoned and remained in Sicily, where he established a successful workshop producing religious commissions. Because of the nature of his output, where paintings were produced as a collaborative effort by assistants and pupils, it is frequently difficult to identify exactly which works, or parts of works, are by Minniti's own hand. It is clear that he brought to Sicily the lessons he had learnt from Caravaggio, in particular the use of dramatic [[chiaroscuro]] and the depiction of scenes seized at the moment of greatest dramatic intensity, but his work (or rather his workshop's output) has been criticised for the "endlessly recycled motifs of...bland religious canvasses." Nevertheless, he is held in high regard in Sicily, and it is possible to speak of a 'School of Minniti' in the island's artistic hiostory. |
He ceases to appear as a model after about 1600, when he is believed to have married, but he evidently continued to associate with Caravaggio after that. In 1606 he was involved with Caravaggio and others in the street brawl which resulted in the death of Ranuccio Tomassoni at Caravaggio's hands, as a result of which Minniti fled to Syracuse. He was eventually pardoned and remained in Sicily, where he established a successful workshop producing religious commissions. Because of the nature of his output, where paintings were produced as a collaborative effort by assistants and pupils, it is frequently difficult to identify exactly which works, or parts of works, are by Minniti's own hand. It is clear that he brought to Sicily the lessons he had learnt from Caravaggio, in particular the use of dramatic [[chiaroscuro]] and the depiction of scenes seized at the moment of greatest dramatic intensity, but his work (or rather his workshop's output) has been criticised for the "endlessly recycled motifs of...bland religious canvasses." Nevertheless, he is held in high regard in Sicily, and it is possible to speak of a 'School of Minniti' in the island's artistic hiostory. |
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Revision as of 09:54, 11 November 2005
Mario Minniti (18 December 1577 – 22 November 1640) was an Italian artist active in Sicily after 1606. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, he arrived in Rome in 1573, where he became the friend, collaborator and model of the key Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). His main fame today is his identification, or proposed identification, as a model in many of Caravaggio's early works, including Boy with a Basket of Fruit, The Fortune Teller, Cardsharps, The Musicians, Boy Bitten by a Lizard (probable), Bacchus, The Lute Player, The Calling of Saint Matthew, and The Martyrdom of Saint Matthew.
He ceases to appear as a model after about 1600, when he is believed to have married, but he evidently continued to associate with Caravaggio after that. In 1606 he was involved with Caravaggio and others in the street brawl which resulted in the death of Ranuccio Tomassoni at Caravaggio's hands, as a result of which Minniti fled to Syracuse. He was eventually pardoned and remained in Sicily, where he established a successful workshop producing religious commissions. Because of the nature of his output, where paintings were produced as a collaborative effort by assistants and pupils, it is frequently difficult to identify exactly which works, or parts of works, are by Minniti's own hand. It is clear that he brought to Sicily the lessons he had learnt from Caravaggio, in particular the use of dramatic chiaroscuro and the depiction of scenes seized at the moment of greatest dramatic intensity, but his work (or rather his workshop's output) has been criticised for the "endlessly recycled motifs of...bland religious canvasses." Nevertheless, he is held in high regard in Sicily, and it is possible to speak of a 'School of Minniti' in the island's artistic hiostory.