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Michel-François Dandré-Bardon: The adoration of skulls (

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Description	French painter and etcher
Date of birth/death	22 May 1700	1783
Location of birth/death	Aix-en-Provence	Paris
Work location	France
Authority file	: Q3308769 VIAF: 73875277 ISNI: 0000000071399750 ULAN: 500029043 LCCN: n89607946 WGA: d/dandre WorldCat

Title

The adoration of skulls

Object type

painting

Date

1733

Medium

oil on canvas

Collection

National Gallery of Art.

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DANDRÉ-BARDON, Michel-François

(b. 1700, Aix-en-Provence, d. 1783, Paris)

The Adoration of the Skulls 1733-34 Oil on canvas, 53 x 64 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington

The enigmatic subject matter of this painting and its pendant Preaching of a Monk (Musée du Louvre, Paris) have left room for different interpretations of their significance. The use of skulls and crucifixes in the meditation represented evokes a form of devotion that grew in popularity during the Counter-Reformation and that was closely associated with the Capuchin branch of the Franciscan order. It was also proposed that the pendants are imaginary capricci involving monks, in which the artist gave free play to his imagination. Such paintings can be found in the oeuvre of the contemporary Venetian painter Alessandro Magnasco, and it is likely that Dandré-Bardon drew on his knowledge of <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/m/magnasco/prayingm.html')" href="/html/m/magnasco/prayingm.html">this artist's work</a> to create his pendants.

Formerly the painting was attributed to Jean-Honoré Fragonard.

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Author: DANDRÉ-BARDON, Michel-François Title: The Adoration of the Skulls Time-line: 1701-1750 School: French Form: painting

Type: religious