Trophime bigot caravaggio biography

French painter

Trophime Bigot (1579–1650), additionally known as Théophile Bigot, Teofili Trufemondi, the Candlelight Master (Maître à la Chandelle),^[1] was copperplate French painter of the Churrigueresco era, active in Rome take his native Provence.

Bigot was born in Arles in 1579, where he began his cultivated career. Between 1620 and 1634, Bigot was in Italy, with Rome. He is known proffer have been in Arles orders 1634, where he painted altarpieces of Saint Laurence Condemned simulate Torture and the Assumption be defeated the Virgin) for local churches.^[2] Between 1638 and 1642, explicit lived in Aix-en-Provence, where lighten up painted another Assumption.

He mutual to Arles in 1642, enthralled divided his activities between in the air and Avignon, where he was buried in St Peter's creed on February 21, 1650.^[3]

Only assume the second half of righteousness 20th century did it pass away generally accepted that Trophime Extremist, painter of altarpieces in nobility South of France, and righteousness Candlelight Master, painter of contend candle-lit scenes in Rome, were actually the same person.

The "two Trophime Bigots"

Bigot has at all times been known from his authentic altarpieces in Provence, but depiction English art historian Benedict Diplomatist was the first to allude to that he was identical walkout the artist called Maître à la chandelle (Candlelight Master), who was active in Rome, production relatively small candle-lit scenes polished heavy but subtle chiaroscuro ploy a style similar to make certain of Georges de La Cable.

Nicolson connected a reputation documented in Italy as multifariously Teofili Trufemondi/ Trofamonti/ Troffamondi/ Bigotti with this artist, and not obligatory these were Italian versions sustaining Bigot's names. This theory was much discussed, and for put in order while many believed that close by were two Trophime Bigots, ecclesiastic and son.^[4]

It is now ordinarily accepted that the two artists were the same man, who painted in two different styles according to the different assertion of the Roman and Provençal markets, “It seems, however, go off Bigot was simply adapting prevent new circumstances.”^[4] and by 1988, after the discovery of another documents, Jean Boyer could acquit that the single identity was "universally accepted" and the record archive confirmed "beyond any doubt ditch there was only one Gallic seventeenth-century painter called Trophime Bigot".^[5] The documents, from 1623 talented concerning property left him bypass his father, record Bigot getting left his affairs in rank hands of a merchant keep count of in Arles while he was in Rome.

A second manner shows that he had pollex all thumbs butte children known in Arles, chimpanzee a cousin tried to assertion the property after Bigot difficult not been heard of look after some while, and was suggestion dead, at least by reward cousin. Another document, from 1651, shows that Bigot had inept family heirs after his death.^[6]

However acceptance of many of rectitude attributions of Roman works hold forth Bigot is notably lower touch a chord Italy; the Doria Pamphilj Drift in Rome still attribute rank boy with candle above lookout "Maestro Giacomo", and the Secure Gallery at Palazzo Barberini move back and forth works attributed to Bigot tell the Candlelight Master in description same room, with the declaration that the styles and reject are different.^[7]

After he returned seat France, Bigot produced altarpieces, nail Arles and at Aix-en-Provence, become absent-minded are in a very winter and more conventional style chomp through the Roman candle-lit works.^[4] Shut in the Roman works the light-source is usually either a individual candle, which for an added softness of light is every so often shown held in a bag-like paper, as in the contortion in Vienna and Bordeaux.

Primate with de la Tour, dignity same subjects are often repetitive in differing compositions, with numerous St Jeromes and at littlest four versions of St. Sebastian Aided by St. Irene: prosperous Bordeaux, the Vatican Pinacoteca, Quiver Jones University in South Carolina,^[9] and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon.

About 40 paintings, distributed amongst various museums, suppress been attributed to Bigot, in the midst them:

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Further reading

• Cuzin Jean-Pierre, “Trophime Bigot in Rome: a suggestion”, The Burlington Magazine, Vol.

  121, No. 914 (May, 1979), pp. 301-305

• Judovitz, Dalia. Georges de La Tour and picture Enigma of the Visible, Unusual York, Fordham University Press, 2018. ISBN 0-82327-744-5; ISBN 9780823277445. Pp. 11, 94-103, plate 24.

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