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Stom, Matthias
Stom, Matthias (c.1600–c.1650). Dutch painter, active mainly in Italy. In art-historical literature he is often called Matthias Stomer, but ‘Stom’ is the form that occurs in contemporary documents and on his only signed and dated picture, St Isidore Agricola (1641, Chiesa degli Agostiniani, Caccamo, Sicily). The details of his life are obscure, but he was one of the most prolific and committed of Caravaggesque artists, working in the master's idiom long after it had gone out of fashion in most places. He evidently came from Amersfoort, near Utrecht, and is first documented in 1630, in Rome. A few years later he moved to Naples, and from about 1640 he lived in Sicily. There are about 200 surviving pictures by him, mainly religious works but also including mythological and genre scenes. They are remarkable for their psychological intensity and their distinctive clay-like treatment of flesh.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Stom, Matthias." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Stom, Matthias." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-StomMatthias.html IAN CHILVERS. "Stom, Matthias." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O3-StomMatthias.html |
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Stom, Matthias
Stom, Matthias (b Amersfoort, nr. Utrecht, c.1600; d ?Sicily, c.1650). Dutch painter, active mainly in Italy. In art-historical literature he is often called Matthias Stomer, but ‘Stom’ is the form that occurs in contemporary documents and on his only signed and dated picture, St Isidore Agricola (1641, Chiesa degli Agostiniani, Caccamo, Sicily). The details of his life are obscure, but he was one of the most prolific and committed of Caravaggesque artists, working in the master's idiom long after it had gone out of fashion in most places. He is first documented in 1630, in Rome; a few years later he moved to Naples, and from about 1640 he lived in Sicily. There are about 200 surviving pictures by him, mainly religious works but also including mythological and genre scenes. They are remarkable for their psychological intensity and their distinctive claylike treatment of flesh.
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IAN CHILVERS. "Stom, Matthias." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "Stom, Matthias." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-StomMatthias.html IAN CHILVERS. "Stom, Matthias." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-StomMatthias.html |
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