rubenista:

Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, 1615

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In a talk I saw at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, speaker Dr. Elizabeth Honig described how a number of Dutch artists like Rubens and Brueghel had extensive collections of animals, figures, and other individual images called “copia” that they re-used in various ways throughout their works (1). Thus, in ‘paradise’ landscapes like this one, a large number of individual images form a dynamic yet cohesive whole.

Dr. Honig mentioned the parrots in particular - look out for the same red and blue bird, seen here in the upper left corner in this work, perched on the left side of Brueghel’s The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (1613) and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (1615). The same two parrots from this landscape are even visible on the far right side of Brueghel’s The Temptation in the Garden of Eden (1600).

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1. Elizabeth Honig, “Making Paradise,” (presented at The Art of Peace: Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ new Pavilion for Peace, Montreal, Quebec, March 20–21, 2017).

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koredzas:

Marco Palmezzano - The Immaculate with the Saint Augustine, Saint Anselm and Saint Stephen. Detail. 1509

koredzas:

Marco Palmezzano - The Immaculate with the Saint Augustine, Saint Anselm and Saint Stephen. Detail. 1509

koredzas:

Girolamo da Treviso il Vecchio - Madonna and Child. 1480 - 1485

books0977:

The Concert (1635-1640). Jan van Bijlert (Dutch, 1597/98-1671). Oil on canvas.

Dutch painter, who studied with Abraham Bloemaert then left for Italy in 1621. He returned to Utrecht, his native city, from Italy by 1624. He arrived as a confirmed Caravaggist relying heavily on the Italian master’s strong chiaroscuro effects, but by the early thirties, like most Utrecht painters, he adopted a classical manner and a lighter palette.

koredzas:

Bronzino - Virgin of the Annunciation. 1564

books0977:

Reading on the Terrace. Johann Hamza (German, 1850-1927). Oil on panel.

Hamza painted with the intention of depicting striking situations, which appeal to collectors of extremely fine genre. The eloquence of his pictures result from his dexterity in rendering precisely the surfaces of all materials, objects or figures in their grand surroundings. The light and dark colour harmonies and their skillful groupings attribute to his eminent placing in the ranks of German figure painters.

speciesbarocus:

Fresco @ Church of the Parigoritissa (13th c.), Arta.

koredzas:

Unknown Artist - Portrait of the Chevalier Philip Hinckaert and Saint Philip the Apostle, Before the Virgin. 1494 - 1505

hildegardavon:

aphroditepandemos

Louis Dorigny, 1654-1742

Pan uncovering the nakedness of a sleeping Nymph, ca.1710, fresco

Palazzo Orsetti Dolfin Giacomelli, Treviso