A leading figure in the baroque Spanish tradition alongside El Greco, Velázquez and Zurbarán José de Riberas style was the most markedly Tenebrist (a style of painting in which the vivid and often violent contrasts between light and dark is one of the dominating features of the image) of his contemporaries. He was also one of the first artists of his time to be both a painter and printmaker. This gloriously illustrated book, written by Javier Portús chief curator of the Spanish Baroque art department at the Museo del Prado in Madrid takes a fresh look at Riberas career, with a focus on his earlier work.
