Giuseppe Ribera

(1591–1652) Spanish painter (1591–1652)

Giuseppe Ribera (1591–1652) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a printmaker, and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Giuseppe Ribera belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.

Giuseppe Ribera was born in Xàtiva and died in Naples. Giuseppe Ribera studied under Francesc Ribalta. Giuseppe Ribera worked in Valencia, Rome, Parma, and Naples. Wikidata associates Giuseppe Ribera with Baroque. The students included Luca Giordano.

The best-known works include ‘Saint Bartholomew’, ‘Philosopher with Mirror’, ‘Communion of the Apostle’, and ‘Prophets and Patriarchs’. The works belong mainly to the genres religious art and mythological painting. The catalogue has 242 works by Giuseppe Ribera with free images. The dated works span the years 1601–1863. Works by Giuseppe Ribera are held by several collections, among them Pradomuseet, Prints in the National Gallery of Art, Museo del Prado, and Museo di Capodimonte. Wikidata links 7 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Christoffel van den Berghe, Luciano Borzone, Jacques Fouquières, Bartholomäus, the younger Strobel, and Gerard Seghers.

• The Baroque
• Jacob’s Dream
• Women Gladiators
• Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son
• The Clubfoot
• The Martyrdom of Saint Philip
• Pietá
• Apollo Flaying Marsyas
• Aristotle
• Saint Andrew
• Drunken Silenus
• Democritus
• Lamentation over the dead Christ
• Saint Januarius leaves the furnace
• Isaac and Jacob
• Saint Mary of Egypt
• St. Jerome and the Angel of Judgment
• Martyrdom of Saint Andrew
• Ixion
• The Blind Sculptor
• Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew
• Saint Andrew
• Tityos
• Apollo flaying Marsyas
• Saint Sebastian
• Saint Bruno Receiving the Rule
• Saint Sebastian