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The Spanish Tenebrist painter Jusepe de Ribera. Born
in Xativa, a small village near Valencia in Spain. At the age of 20
he went to Rome to studied art there. In Italy they give him the name "Lo Spagnoletto".
The painter became a follower of the famous Caravaggio style. After Rome
he moved to Naples in 1616. The Spanish painter never returned to his
home country. The painter Ribera died in Naples, Italy in 1652. |