{"product_id":"jusepe-de-ribera-nicola-spinosa-9781917976183","title":"Jusepe de Ribera: A Saint Holding a Staff","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduces an \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eunpublished and unfinished painting by Jusepe de Ribera depicting a half-length Apostle holding a staff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis handsome book is devoted to the scholarly study of an unpublished and unfinished painting by Jusepe de Ribera depicting a half-length Apostle holding a staff, datable to the artist's mature Neapolitan period, around 1630. The work, preserved in a private collection and previously unknown to scholarship, is here presented and examined for the first time through a combination of stylistic, iconographic, historical and technical analysis.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book brings together contributions by leading specialists in Ribera studies, including an introduction by Nicola Spinosa and an extensive iconographic enquiry by Francisco Camacho Herrera, as well as visual comparison and documentary evidence and a detailed technical analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy presenting a rigorously documented case study of an unpublished work, this volume contributes significantly to ongoing debates surrounding Ribera's artistic development, workshop organization, and the boundaries between finished and unfinished painting. It offers scholars a new point of reference within Ribera's oeuvre and a broader reflection on naturalism, seriality, and artistic identity in seventeenth-century Neapolitan painting. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nicola Spinosa,Francisco Camacho Herrera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1917976186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781917976183\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Holberton Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Nicola Spinosa","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48852930527487,"sku":"9781917976183","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jusepe-de-ribera-nicola-spinosa-9781917976183","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}