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Vanitas Still-life with a Portrait of a Young Painter by David Bailly
Vanitas is an explicit genre of art in which the artist uses gloomy and moody symbolic objects in order that the viewer becomes very aware of the brevity of life and the inevibility of death. The origins of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, David Bailly, Dutch painters, Flemish painters, Still life paintings, Vanitas
Tagged anitas Still-life with a Portrait of a Young Painter by David Bailly, Art, Art Blog, Art History, David Bailly, Dutch painters, Flemish painter, Still life paintings, vanitas, Vanitas paintings
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Peter Paul Rubens and Hélène Fourment
This superb portrait by Rubens of his wife Hélène and their three year old son, Frans can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Frans is the only one of their children featured which makes us … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Flemish painters, Portraiture, Rubens
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Flemish painter, Hélène Fourment, Het Pelsken by Rubens, Nude portraiture, Portraiture, Rubens
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Peter Paul Rubens and Isabella Brant
This painting, which is housed in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich is entitled The Honeysuckle Bower and was painted by Rubens the year he married Isdabella Brant. It is a full-length double portrait of the happy couple who have the honeysuckle … Continue reading
Rembrandt, Geertje Dircx and Hendrickje Stoffels
It is thought that the woman in the painting is Hendrickje Stoffels, who was Rembrandt’s maid and who shared the second part of the artist’s life. Later she would become his lover and would remain by his side until the … Continue reading
Rembrandt von Rijn and Saskia van Uylenburg
Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume was painted by Rembrandt in 1635, The painting is housed in the National Gallery, London. Saskia who was twenty-three years old at the time and who had been married to Rembrandt for just twelve … Continue reading
The Holy Family paintings by Joos van Cleve
The artist I am featuring today is the early Netherlandish painter Joos van der Beke, better known as Joos van Cleve because he is thought to have been born in the Lower Rhine region of Kleve, possibly the Rhine-river town … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Dutch painters, Joos van Cleve, Religious paintings
Tagged Art, Art Blog, Art History, Death of the Virgin by Joos van Cleve, Dutch painters, Joos van Cleve, Religious painting, The High Altarpiece in the Kalkar church of St Nicholai by Jan Joest, The Holy Family by Joos van Cleve
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Virgin and Child with Saints by Rogier van der Weyden
Do you like jigsaw puzzles? Do you like a mystery? I hope so as today my featured paintings are just part of an artistic and mysterious jigsaw puzzle. I will be looking at the three remaining pieces of an original … Continue reading
The Portraiture of Christen Købke
Today, as I promised in my last blog, I am going to continue looking at the life of the Danish painter Christen Købke and concentrate on some of his intriguing and exquisite portraiture work. In my last blog, I had … Continue reading
The Frederiksborg Castle paintings by Christen Købke
The featured painter in my next two blogs is the Danish artist, Christen Købke, who lived in Denmark in the first half of the nineteenth century, a period which was to become known as den danske guldalder (the Danish Golden … Continue reading
