June 29, 2021

1655 in Arts

1655 in Arts


Guercino (1591-1666), Self-Portrait before a Painting of "Amor Fedele", 1655, oil on canvas, 116 x 95.6 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Guercino (1591-1666), Self-Portrait before a Painting of "Amor Fedele", 1655, oil on canvas, 116 x 95.6 cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States of America


“Self-Portrait before a Painting of ‘Amor Fedele’” is a painting by the Italian Baroque artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino. Created in 1655, this artwork is an oil on canvas and measures approximately 116 x 95.6 cm.

In this self-portrait, Guercino depicts himself standing in front of an easel holding a painter’s palette and brushes. The painting on the easel, titled “Amor Fedele” (Faithful Love), features a small, nude boy with a bow and quiver of arrows, accompanied by a slender dog. The boy is shown hooking a finger into the dog’s collar, and a stone slab with a snake swallowing its tail is visible near their feet.

The self-portrait captures Guercino’s likeness with detailed features, including his lined forehead, wavy ash-blond hair, and brushy mustache. The painting within the painting, “Amor Fedele,” symbolizes themes of love and fidelity, common in Baroque art.


“'์•„๋ชจ๋ฅด ํŽ˜๋ธ๋ ˆ' ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์•ž์˜ ์žํ™”์ƒ"์€ ๊ตฌ์—๋ฅด์น˜๋…ธ๋กœ ์•Œ๋ ค์ง„ ์ดํƒˆ๋ฆฌ์•„ ๋ฐ”๋กœํฌ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€ ์กฐ๋ฐ˜๋‹ˆ ํ”„๋ž€์ฒด์Šค์ฝ” ๋ฐ”๋ฅด๋น„์—๋ฆฌ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1655๋…„์— ์ œ์ž‘๋œ ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์บ”๋ฒ„์Šค์— ์œ ํ™”๋กœ ์ œ์ž‘๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ํฌ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์•ฝ 116 x 95.6cm์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ์žํ™”์ƒ์—์„œ ๊ฒŒ๋ฅด์น˜๋…ธ๋Š” ํ™”๊ฐ€์˜ ํŒ”๋ ˆํŠธ์™€ ๋ถ“์„ ๋“ค๊ณ  ์ด์ ค ์•ž์— ์„œ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ž์‹ ์˜ ๋ชจ์Šต์„ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด์ ค ์œ„์— ๊ทธ๋ ค์ง„ '์•„๋ชจ๋ฅด ํŽ˜๋ธ๋ ˆ'(์ถฉ์‹คํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋ž‘)๋ผ๋Š” ์ œ๋ชฉ์˜ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์—๋Š” ํ™œ๊ณผ ํ™”์‚ดํ†ต์„ ๋“  ์ž‘์€ ์†Œ๋…„๊ณผ ๋‚ ์”ฌํ•œ ๊ฐœ ํ•œ ๋งˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋“ฑ์žฅํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์†Œ๋…„์€ ๊ฐœ์˜ ๋ชฉ๊ฑธ์ด์— ์†๊ฐ€๋ฝ์„ ๊ฑธ๊ณ  ์žˆ๊ณ , ๋ฐœ ๊ทผ์ฒ˜์—๋Š” ๋ฑ€์ด ๊ผฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์‚ผํ‚จ ์„ํŒ์ด ๋ณด์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด ์žํ™”์ƒ์—๋Š” ๊ตฌ๋ถˆ๊ตฌ๋ถˆํ•œ ์ด๋งˆ, ๋ฌผ๊ฒฐ์น˜๋Š” ์žฟ๋น› ๊ธˆ๋ฐœ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฅ์ˆ˜๋ฃฉํ•œ ์ฝง์ˆ˜์—ผ ๋“ฑ ๊ตฌ๋ฅด์น˜๋…ธ์˜ ์ด๋ชฉ๊ตฌ๋น„๊ฐ€ ์ž์„ธํžˆ ๋ฌ˜์‚ฌ๋˜์–ด ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์† ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ธ '์•„๋ชจ๋ฅด ํŽ˜๋ธ๋ ˆ'๋Š” ๋ฐ”๋กœํฌ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์—์„œ ํ”ํžˆ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋ž‘๊ณผ ์ถฉ์‹คํ•จ์˜ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ์ƒ์ง•ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.



Bartolomรฉ Esteban Murillo (1617–1682), Saint Mary Magdalene, c. 1650-1655, oil on canvas, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California

1655, 1650s



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