1695
oil
canvas
From the collection of Art Institute of Chicago
Dominant colour
Jove Casts His Thunderbolts at the Rebellious Giants is a 1695 oil by Johann Michael Rottmayr, a Barbizon school work, held at Art Institute of Chicago.
You see a big scene with gods and giants fighting in the painting. The artist used a lot of movement and energy in the scene. It's also interesting that the artist chose a mythological story to depict, which was common back then. Check out the technique of chiaroscuro to learn more about how artists like this one used light and dark.
Unknown Illinois banker; given by banker to Jacob S. Sherman, Chicago, during the 1930s as collateral for a loan that was never repaid [according to Robert Parker Sherman, son of Jacob S. Sherman, telephone conversation with Martha Wolff, 23 July 2003, transcribed in curatorial file]; bequeathed by Jacob S. Sherman (died 1961) to the Art Institute, 1961.
University of Chicago, David and Alfred Smart Gallery, "German and Austrian Painting of the Eighteenth Century," 20 April–11 June 1978, no. 26.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 405A. Edward A. Maser, "Five Early Paintings by Johann Michael Rottmayr," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 2 (1967), pp. 19, 22–31, pl. 2. Edward A. Maser, "Fünf frühe Gemälde des Johann Rottmayr," Alte und Moderne Kunst 24 (1979), pp. 1–4, ill. no. 5. Erich Hubala, Johann Michael Rottmayr (Vienna, 1981) p. 182, no. G20, fig. 42. Daniel Fulco, "Myths of Defiance and Authority: the Gigantomachy and Fall of Phaeton in Ovidian Imagery of the Early Modern German…
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Johann Michael Rottmayr (1656–1730) was an Austrian artist, born in Laufen.
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