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Tasso in Prison

Francisco José de Resende1854 - 1855

Dionísio Pinheiro And Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Foundation

Dionísio Pinheiro And Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Foundation
Águeda, Portugal

Resende, pupil of August Roquemont, presents Tasso in prison, who is the poet of “La Gerusalemme Liberata” of 1580. The canvas is painted in oil with predominance of brown colours and shades, detailing the image of a sitting bearded man, whole figured, with his left arm on a table, in a rather limited room with claustrophobic walls and bars (the representation of imprisonment), from where a streak of light comes in, and only a paper and pencil-box on the table. The scene was immortalized by Baudelaire in his poem “On Tasso in Prison” by Eugéne Delacroix. Francisco José de Resende, popular and conservative painter, faithful to romanticist painting wrote on the back of this painting: “I offered the original painting (natural scale) to Our King Dom Fernando, my generous benefactor”.
He is a mandatory personality of the Romanticist Oporto and the Portuguese Romanticist painting.

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  • Title: Tasso in Prison
  • Creator: Francisco José de Resende
  • Creator Lifespan: 1825 - 1893
  • Creator Nationality: Portuguese
  • Creator Gender: Male
  • Creator Death Place: Oporto
  • Creator Birth Place: Oporto
  • Date: 1854 - 1855
  • Physical Dimensions: 413 x 529 mm
  • Provenance: Fundação Dionísio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro
  • Type: Oil on canvas
  • External Link: http://www.fundacaodionisiopinheiro.pt/pt/o-museu/coleccao/pintura
  • Painter: Francisco José de Resende
  • Original Title: Tasso na Prisão
  • Credit Line: Text: © Fundação Dionísio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro / Vieira Duque Translation: © Translation with Colour® (http://translationwithcolour.wordpress.com), Luís Arruda / Fundação Dionísio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Photo: © Fundação Dionísio Pinheiro e Alice Cardoso Pinheiro / António Santos
Dionísio Pinheiro And Alice Cardoso Pinheiro Foundation

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