Georges de La Tour - Wikipedia
WEBGeorges de La Tour (13 March 1593 – 30 January 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly …
Georges de la Tour - 60 artworks - painting - WikiArt.org
WEBGeorges de La Tour (March 13, 1593 – January 30, 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly …
Georges de La Tour | Baroque painter, candlelight scenes, …
WEBGeorges de La Tour was a painter, mostly of candlelit subjects, who was well known in his own time but then forgotten until well into the 20th century, when the identification of many formerly misattributed works established his …
Georges de La Tour Paintings, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
WEBOne of the greatest exponents of 17th century Baroque painting, La Tour's mastery of chiaroscuro was such that he is often named as Caravaggio's natural successor.
Georges de La Tour - National Gallery of Art
WEBBiography. Georges de La Tour was born in 1593 in Vic-sur-Seille, a large market town in the independent duchy of Lorraine, now part of northeastern France, that was the seat of the archbishopric of Metz.
Georges de La Tour - Artnet
WEBGeorges de La Tour was a French painter of the Baroque period known for his meditative candlelit scenes. Influenced by the chiaroscuro style of Caravaggio, La Tour produced paintings with a palpable sense of wonder and stillness.
Georges de La Tour - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBThe Fortune-Teller. Georges de La Tour French. probably 1630s. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 622. Darting eyes and busy hands create a captivating narrative between otherwise staid figures, each of which is richly clothed in meticulously painted combinations of color and texture.
The Cheat with the Ace of Clubs | Kimbell Art Museum
WEBOne of the greatest masterpieces of seventeenth-century French art, Georges de La Tour’s Cheat with the Ace of Clubs takes as its subject the danger of indulgence in wine, women, and gambling.
From Darkness Into Light: Rediscovering Georges De La Tour
WEBDec 1, 1996 · In the 1630s La Tour turned his attention to nocturnes pictures of figures magically caught in the light and shadow of a flickering candle flame.
Georges de La Tour: Master of Candlelight, Mystery, and Spiritual ...
WEBGeorges de La Tour (1593–1652), a French Baroque painter, is primarily celebrated for his religious and genre paintings, renowned for their exquisite candlelight effects and dramatically evocative scenes.
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