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Tuesday, June 26, 2012

La Torre di Babele, Monsu Desiderio, Napoli

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The work of Monsu Desiderio, the Italian form of the French Monsieur Didier) is intereswting from a psychological as well as an artistic point of view.

In 1950, art historians disovered that this was the name that cloaked the identities of two French artists from Lorraine who had settled in Napoli and who worked in collaboration.

In "La Torre di Babele", we can see them presenting the sketch of their painting in a figure wearing a crown.

In the shadows at the foot of the violently lit tower, in the style of Caravaggio, can be found the basic motifs of the repertoire: votive steles, action statues, and a 'tempietto' in the classical style.

Here, as in all their paintings, the arhictectural forms are fantastic.

"La torre di Babele" marks a stage in the career of the two painters, who at first painted palaces and temples intact, then showed them half destroyed, and finally painted whole cataclysms: stumps of columns, and broken statues with apocalyptic light effects.

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