St Paul of Thebes

A painting representing the penitent and half-naked figure of St. Paul, with a long grey beard and dressed in a cloak of coarse cloth that covers his lower abdomen. The saint is enveloped in a total penumbra, resulting in a tenebrism that highlights the figure’s immanent luminosity, in sharp chiaroscuro contrasts, in a pictorial game that heralds the beginning of the 18th-century baroque.
This painting clearly denotes the influence of the Ribera School of painting.