Rhetoricians at a Window is a Genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Steen which was painted from 1662 to 1666. The picture depicts a group of four people (and a shaded figure taking a large sip from a likely alcoholic drink in the background) sitting beside a window. It is either a residential …
This is Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard van Honthorst’s religious masterpiece Adoration of the Shepherds which was painted in 1622 when he was 30 years of age. Gerard van Honthorst was one of a small group of Dutch painters who relocated to Rome around 1616. While there, they worked on commissions and studied contemporary works …
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Woman in Blue Reading a Letter is a genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Johannes Vermeer. It was created in 1664. This work is located in The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This painting depicts an intimate domestic scene that leaves much open to interpretation. The contents of the letter are not visible, but …
Frans Hals’s Golden Age Genre Painting Malle Babbe from 1633-35 is inscribed with it’s title “Malle Babbe” (“malle” being Dutch for “crazy”), and the subject has been identified as a well-known woman who lived in Haarlem at the time of the artist. Both Malle Babbe and Frans Hals’s son Pietr were residents at a local …
The Artist’s Son Titus is a 1657 portrait of Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn’s son Titus who was the only child to survive infancy during the marriage of Rembrandt and his first wife Saskia. Rembrandt’s The Artist’s Son Titus Analysis Here Titus is painted in a grand Baroque style at the age of about sixteen. …
Melchior de Hondecoeter was a Dutch artist who specialized in the painting of birds and The Poultry Yard is an example of this. The ‘Raphael of birds’ painted many exotic birds from all over the world. The Poultry Yard is a more basic bird painting, featuring farmyard birds such as chickens and ducks in a …
Dutch painter Hendrick ter Brugghen traveled to Rome late in his career and it was there that he became a follower of Italian painter Caravaggio who inspired A man playing a lute. In 1620 Ter Brugghen painted a number of portraits of Italian musicians in elaborate clothing with no background, using Caravaggio’s style of emphasizing …
The Abduction of Europa is a 1632 Mythological painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt. It is one of the five forays by Rembrandt into myth, specifically, the event described in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: the kidnapping of princess Europa by the god Zeus transformed into a bull. This scene depicts the abduction of Europa by the …
