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Virtual Museum 1650 to 1700
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Ecstasy of St. Theresa
Artist: Gian Lorenzo Berini. It is generally considered to be one of the sculptural masterpieces of the High Roman Baroque. The two central sculptural figures of the swooning nun, Teresa of Avila, and the angel with the spear derive from an episode described by the nun, in her autobiography, ‘The Life of Teresa of Jesus’ -
Landscape with Orpheus and Euridice
Artist: Nicolas Poussin. The 6.5 x 4 feet canvas was painted between 1650 and 1653. It depicts Orpheus in the Campagna Romana (Roman countryside): the Castel Sant'Angelo and the Torre delle Milizie ("Tower of the Militia") figure in this painting, borrowed from the landscape of the Eternal City. Dense smoke pours from a fire which devastates the Castle, and darkens a an overcast sky. The fall of the light divides the landscape diagonally into bright and dark. -
The GoldFinch
Artist: Carel Fabritius. Of all Rembrandt's pupils, he was the only one to develop his own artistic style. His portraits feature delicately lit subjects against light-colored, textured backgrounds. Moving away from the Renaissance focus on iconography, Fabritius became interested in the technical aspects of painting. He used cool color harmonies to create shape in a luminous style of painting. -
The Personification of Astrology
Artist: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri. Known as Guercino or Il Guercino (Italian for Squinter), because he was cross eyed. He was Italian Baroque painter. The vigorous naturalism of his early manner is in contrast to the classical equilibrium of his later works. His many drawings are noted for their luminosity and lively style. -
Xantippe Dousing Socrates
Artist: Reyer Van Blommendael. The theme of this picture is unique in painting. The philosopher Socrates sits on the right on two steps that form a horizontal stone 'entrance' to the scene. Socrates wears rags wrapped around his legs and secured with pieces of string and can be identified by his irregular features and his motto carved in Greek letters on the stone slab on which he leans. His wife Xantippe scolds him and empties the contents of a vessel over his head. -
Jupiter Notices Callisto
Artist:Nicolaes Berchem. A landscapist, however, he produced a number of works between 1648 and 1650 in which figures dominate the composition. Later he produced several more pictures with figures so large that the landscape is decor.
The nymph Callisto, exhausted from the hunt, has lain down to rest. Her robust figure fills the entire foreground. Her right hand rests on a deer and a hare from the hunt. She is elegant and coquettish, and she attracts the attention of the lecherous Jupiter. -
The Procuress
Artist: Jan Vermeer. It shows a genre scene in a brothel - the woman on the left is the procuress, while the man on the left has been identified by some as a self portrait of the artist. As one of only three paintings Vermeer signed and dated (the other two are The Astronomer and The Geographer), it is his earliest known genre work and was influenced by earlier works on the same subject. -
La Hilanderas
Artist:Diego Velázquez . Ovid's Fable of Arachne who challenged the goddess Athena to a weaving competition and, on winning the contest, was turned into a spider by the jealous goddess. The goddess Athena, disguised as an old woman, is on the left and Arachne, is on the right. The painting has been interpreted as an allegory of the arts and even as a commentary on the range of creative endeavor, fine arts represented by the goddess and the crafts represented by Arachne. -
A Woman Drinking with Two Men
Artist: Pieter de Hooch.The main focus of the painting is the wine glass, held up by the girl on the left, which is brightly illuminated from the adjacent window. On the rear wall behind the table is a map of Holland and over the fireplace to the right, a painting showing the Education of the Virgin, -
Râginâ Vasanta (Spring) Krishna Dancing To The Mus
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The Young Mother
Artist: Gerrit Dou. A Dutch Golden Age painter whose small, highly-polished paintings specialized in genre scenes. He is noted for his "niche" paintings and candlelit night-scenes. His setting is theatrical: a great tapestry is raised to reveal this almost staged vignette of a nursing mother. -
Hercules at Rest
Artist:Pierre Pegut. Puget went himself to the Carrara mountains to choose marble for this statue, and settled in Genoa to execute it; but before it was finished he heard of the fall of Fouquet. Thus the sculpture, originally intended for the Chateau of Vaux, residence of the superintendant of Finance, Fouquet, went to Colbert, the great minister of Louis XIV. -
Alchemist
Artist: Cornelis Bega. Bega depicts quack scientists, especially alchemists. He is surrounded by the detritus of his profession: books and papers, cryptic substances, bottles, strangely shaped jars, and chipped earthenware abound. Every chink, imperfection, and reflection in the implements scattered about the room has been deftly captured. He has rendered the dust lying on the discarded clay vessels in the foreground. -
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Artist Johannes Vermeer. The provenance of this painting cannot be traced back very far. All earlier documents or sales catalogs cited by Blankert are guesswork. Vermeer seems to have painted a number of "heads," and various cited 'tronie', as they were called, cannot be further identified. -
Old Philospher
Artist:Pietro Bellotti. An Italian painter active in the Baroque period. -
Allegory of the Foundation of Rome
Artist: Bertholet Flémal Painting depicts Victory crowning Minerva, the Roman goddess of war. Victory sits enthroned in her chariot surrounded by tools of war, and conquered adversaries. Minerva holds a Victoriola, a small statute of Victory. A statue of the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus, the founders of the Rome, is in the background -
Quodlibet
Artist:Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts was a Flemish painter of still life and active in the second half of the seventeenth century. -
Dam Square, Amsterdam
Artist Gerrit Berckheyde.This painting depicts the Dam in Amsterdam with the New Town Hall and the Nieuwe Kerk. The Town Hall, commissioned by the city and constructed by Jacob van Campen, was the architectural monument to civic pride. It was the subject of numerous cityscapes by Dutch painters. -
Martyrdom and Glory of St. Pantaleon
Artist: Giovanni Antonio Fumiani. This is claimed to be the largest painting on canvas in the world. It covers the of the church Chiesa di San Pantaleone Martire, in Venice. He died from a fall from a scaffold, although some sources date his death to six years after he stopped work on the canvas. -
Perseus and Andromeda
Artist: Pierre Puget. At the age of fourteen he carved the ornaments of the galleys built in the shipyards of his native city, and at sixteen the decoration and construction of a ship were entrusted to him. Soon after he went to Italy on foot, and was well received at Rome by Pietro da Cortona, who took him into his studio and employed him on the ceilings of the Palazzo Barberini and on those ofPalazzo Pitti at Florence. -
The Drunk Poet
Artist: Shitao. One of the most famous individualist painters of the early Qing dynasty. The art he created was revolutionary in its transgressions of the rigidly codified techniques and styles that dictated what was considered beautiful. Imitation was valued over innovation, -
The Pestsäule (English: Plague Column)
In 1679, Vienna was visited by one of the last big plague epidemics. Fleeing the city,Emperor Leopold I vowed to erect a mercy column if the epidemic would end. In 1683, Matthias Rauchmiller was commissioned to do the marble works, but he died in 1686 and only left a few angel figures. Several new designs followed, among others by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, who designed the sculptures at the base of the column. Finally, the project management was assigned to Paul Strudel. -
Andromeda and the Sea Monster
Artist:Domenico Guidi. This sculpture was thought to have been created byPierre-Étienne Monnot, a French sculptor. It is in the style of Roman Baroque. It is now seen to be Guidi's own work. The sculpture has recently been identified as the Andromeda (pr
