1655 in Arts
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| 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 ํ๋ธ๋ ' ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์์ ์ํ์"์ ๊ตฌ์๋ฅด์น๋ ธ๋ก ์๋ ค์ง ์ดํ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ฐ๋กํฌ ์์ ๊ฐ ์กฐ๋ฐ๋ ํ๋์ฒด์ค์ฝ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋น์๋ฆฌ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๋๋ค. 1655๋ ์ ์ ์๋ ์ด ์ํ์ ์บ๋ฒ์ค์ ์ ํ๋ก ์ ์๋์์ผ๋ฉฐ ํฌ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฝ 116 x 95.6cm์ ๋๋ค.
์ด ์ํ์์์ ๊ฒ๋ฅด์น๋ ธ๋ ํ๊ฐ์ ํ๋ ํธ์ ๋ถ์ ๋ค๊ณ ์ด์ ค ์์ ์ ์๋ ์์ ์ ๋ชจ์ต์ ๋ฌ์ฌํ๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์ด์ ค ์์ ๊ทธ๋ ค์ง '์๋ชจ๋ฅด ํ๋ธ๋ '(์ถฉ์คํ ์ฌ๋)๋ผ๋ ์ ๋ชฉ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์๋ ํ๊ณผ ํ์ดํต์ ๋ ์์ ์๋ ๊ณผ ๋ ์ฌํ ๊ฐ ํ ๋ง๋ฆฌ๊ฐ ํจ๊ป ๋ฑ์ฅํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ ์ ๊ฐ์ ๋ชฉ๊ฑธ์ด์ ์๊ฐ๋ฝ์ ๊ฑธ๊ณ ์๊ณ , ๋ฐ ๊ทผ์ฒ์๋ ๋ฑ์ด ๊ผฌ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ผํจ ์ํ์ด ๋ณด์ ๋๋ค.
์ด ์ํ์์๋ ๊ตฌ๋ถ๊ตฌ๋ถํ ์ด๋ง, ๋ฌผ๊ฒฐ์น๋ ์ฟ๋น ๊ธ๋ฐ ๋จธ๋ฆฌ, ๋ฅ์๋ฃฉํ ์ฝง์์ผ ๋ฑ ๊ตฌ๋ฅด์น๋ ธ์ ์ด๋ชฉ๊ตฌ๋น๊ฐ ์์ธํ ๋ฌ์ฌ๋์ด ์์ต๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฆผ ์ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ธ '์๋ชจ๋ฅด ํ๋ธ๋ '๋ ๋ฐ๋กํฌ ์์ ์์ ํํ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ ์ฌ๋๊ณผ ์ถฉ์คํจ์ ์ฃผ์ ๋ฅผ ์์งํฉ๋๋ค.
1655, 1650s
