# The Three Maries at the Empty Sepulchre [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BACICCIO]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 87 x 113 cm ## Commentary ALongside Carlo Maratti, Baciccio was considered one of the leading figures of the Roman Late Baroque. Excelling as portraitist and fresco painter, he also painted majestic altarpieces and refined canvases for private galleries. The present painting emblematically expresses the main stylistic elements of the artist in the 1680s who was at the height of his success following his magnificent work at the church of the Gesù. We find the painter's full embracement of Bernini's language, not only in the focus on "sculptured painting", typical of the Roman Baroque, but also his adoption of the figurative types of this milieu. The luminous, shimmering palette reflects Baciccio's late evolution towards eighteenth-century painting, of which he was one of the prime forerunners. ## Related artworks - [A Blessed Abbes Receiving the Host from the Hands of Christ]() - [Adoration of the Name of Jesus]() - [Apotheosis of St Ignatius]() - [Apotheosis of the Franciscan Order]() - [Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici]() - [Cupola decoration]() - [Holy Family with the Young St John the Baptist and St Elizabeth]() - [Nave vault]() - [Nave vault]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of Gian Lorenzo Bernini]() - [St John the Baptist]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()