Thursday, March 26, 2015
18C Reading Indoors or How to flirt with a book
At first, of course, there is the innocent, virtuous young girl...
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) The Virtuous Girl
Italian painter Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707-1762), was a highly successful, itinerant artist who traveled painting portraits of wealthy patrons across Europe. As a young man he studied under Antonio Balestra in Rome & Francesco Trevisani in Naples. Thereafter he returned to Verona where he set up a studio for a while, before he began to travel. His work attracted royal & aristocratic patrons in Dresden, Vienna, Munich, & Saint Petersburg. In order to earn a living between commissioned portraits, he created many genre portraits, often images of pretty young girls casting coquettish glances. He died in St Petersburg, where he had traveled to paint for the Russian court.
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Young Woman with a Book 1762
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Girl with a Book
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Young Lady with a Book
Pietro Antonio Rotari (Italian artist, 1707-1762) Self Portrait
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Precious gentlemen...
Lovis Corinth (German artist, 1858-1925) The Freemasons
If you read this blog regularly, you know that I seldom include paintings with completely male subjects; but this one is just too precious to pass by. Oh my...
Saturday, March 14, 2015
The Female Saints of Francisco de Zurbarán 1598–1664
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Apolonia
Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), born at Fuente de Cantos & active mainly in Seville, devoted himself almost entirely to religious works. He worked for churches & monasteries over a wide area of southern Spain and his paintings were also exported to South America. His simple compositions & emotionally direct altarpieces, combining austere naturalism with mystical intensity, made him an ideal Counter-Reformation painter.
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda of Burgos
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda. c 1630-1645
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorotea
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorothea
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eufemia
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Isabel
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Margaret. c 1630-1635
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Marina
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eulalia
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Rufina. Early 1630s
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1625
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1633
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Agatha
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Lucy
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Mathilda
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Barbe
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ines
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia
Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia
Sunday, March 8, 2015
1700s Bringing the Harvest to the Table with Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776)
Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Lady at a Table Laden with Food
One of my favorite 18th-century Flemish painters is Peter Jakob Horemans (1700-1776), who was active as court painter in Munich. Horemans’s lovingly detailed images, part portrait & part still life, capture the richness of everyday life in southern Germany.
Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Gentleman at a Table Laden with Food
Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) The Soup Eater
Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Gentleman with Wine
Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) Kitchen Still Life "The Feeling" 1760
Peter Jakob Horemans (Flemish-Dutch painter, 1700-1776) The Sleeping Kitchen Maid
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
1600s Music in unexpected places - French peasants by Le Nain brothers
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Children singing with the violin
Musicians attributed to one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c 1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c 1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677).
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). After Haymaking Flute music...
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Old Flute Player
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Peasants in Landscape Flute music.
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Peasant Family at Home Flute music
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). The Flageolet Player
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Preparing for Dance School (not exactly peasants)
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Landscape with Peasants Flute music.
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Resting Man wih horse Flute music.
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Spinner's Family at Dinner
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Family of the Milkmaid
By one of the Le Nain brothers, (French artists, Antoine Le Nain (c.1599-1648), Louis Le Nain (c.1593-1648), and Mathieu Le Nain (1607–1677). Peasant Family
Monday, March 2, 2015
1600s Music - Women & Children + a few musicians by Flemish artist Jacob Jordaens 1593-1678
When Jordaens painted one of his self-portraits, he chose to portray himself as a musician. He painted several genre paintings of musicians, and I am including my favorite after his self-portrait.
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Self-Portrait with Bagpipes
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Itinerant Musicians
And, of course, he painted others as well...
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Elizabeth Jordaens 1638
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) The Wife of Johna Wierts 1635
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) The Artist's Daughter Elizabeth
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) The Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia as a Nun
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) The Artist's Daughter Anna Catharina
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Catharina Behagel
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) A Bearded Man & a Woman with Parrot - Unrequited Love
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) A Lady Sitting
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Little Child 1626
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) A Gentlewoman
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) A Lady
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Child's Head 1620
Jacob Jordaens (Flemish artist, 1593-1678) Magdalena De Cuyper1636
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