Bernardino Mei, 1655 - Christ Cleansing the Temple - fine art print

Artwork description by The J. Paul Getty Museum website (© - The J. Paul Getty Museum - The J. Paul Getty Museum)

Upon seeing the Temple of Jerusalem turned into a marketplace by moneychangers and traders in sacrificial animals, the whip-carrying Jesus bursts out in anger. With an animated composition laid out on diagonals, and monumental figures reeling, Bernardino Mei's canvas aptly portrays Christ's righteous fury.

Mei borrowed the half-length figures and their unique, unidealized faces from Caravaggio's naturalistic followers. From the Baroque whirls of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's sculpture, he took the multiple twisting movements, then added a silvery light to harmonize the colors.

Baroque artists often painted this subject because of its tumultuous action and intense emotion. Italians of the 1600s tended to interpret the theme as symbolic of the contemporary reform of the Catholic Church.

In 1655 the Italian painter Bernardino Mei made this artpiece. The work of art is in the the The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. With courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum (licensed - public domain).The creditline of the artwork is: . Furthermore, alignment is in landscape format with a ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width. Bernardino Mei was a engraver, painter, whose art style can mainly be classified as Baroque. The European artist lived for 64 years - born in the year 1612 in Siena, Siena province, Tuscany, Italy and died in 1676.

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