Bathsheba at Her Bath ca. 1700 Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Italian Bathsheba is shown at her toilet, tended by two servants, while King David gazes at her from the palace balcony. David later sent Bathsheba’s husband Uriah into battle to be killed so that he might marry her. This painting, among Chiari’s finest, is based on a work painted by his teacher Carlo Maratti for marchese Niccolò Maria Pallavicini. Chiari introduced a number of motifs, such as the gesture of Bathsheba arranging her hair that subtly redirect Maratti’s more robust style towards the Rococo sensibilities later embodied by F
Bathsheba at Her Bath ca. 1700 Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari Italian Bathsheba is shown at her toilet, tended by two servants, while King David gazes at her from the palace balcony. David later sent Bathsheba’s husband Uriah into battle to be killed so that he might marry her. This painting, among Chiari’s finest, is based on a work painted by his teacher Carlo Maratti for marchese Niccolò Maria Pallavicini. Chiari introduced a number of motifs, such as the gesture of Bathsheba arranging her hair that subtly redirect Maratti’s more robust style towards the Rococo sensibilities later embodied by French artists, including Natoire and Bathsheba at Her Bath. Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (Italian, Lucca or Rome 1654–1727 Rome). ca. 1700. Oil on canvas. Paintings
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