Nicolas Régnier
1591 / 1667
So, from Caravaggio we will like to find in Régnier the theatrical light, the harshness of the touch that transforms the materials - feathers, taffeta, bure - into gestures of the brush, an androgyny that is no longer sickly, still lifes with a dominant red color; from Manfredi this way of rereading the master in close-up; above all, the construction of a discreetly marginal work, greedy for beauty in all directions. The Carracci, Guido Reni, soon Titian, Bassano, Veronese; so many quotations very happily scattered in a painting of synthesis solid and easy, polymorphic and enticing.
So, from Caravaggio we will like to find in Régnier the theatrical light, the harshness of the touch that transforms the materials - feathers, taffeta, bure - into gestures of the brush, an androgyny that is no longer sickly, still lifes with a dominant red color; from Manfredi this way of rereading the master in close-up; above all, the construction of a discreetly marginal work, greedy for beauty in all directions. The Carracci, Guido Reni, soon Titian, Bassano, Veronese; so many quotations very happily scattered in a painting of synthesis solid and easy, polymorphic and enticing.
