Thursday, November 20, 2014

Northern Baroque

Simon Vouet
Venus & Adonis
c. 1642

A group of Getty Museum paintings created in the first half of the seventeenth century by non-Italian artists, most of whom had trained in Italy and were doing their best to imitate Italian techniques.

Charles Le Sueur
Marine Gods Paying Homage to Love
c. 1636-39

Valentin de Boulogne
Christ & the Adulteress
1620s

Charles Le Brun
Martyrdom of St. Andrew
1646-47

Jan Lievens
Prince Charles Louis of the Palatinate with his Tutor
1631

Jacob Adriaensz Backer
Portrait of a Woman
c. 1650

Hendrick Ter Brugghen
Bacchante with Ape
1627

Jan Victors
The Angel Taking Leave of Tobit & his Family
1649

Rembrandt van Rijn
Daniel & Cyrus Before the Idol Bel
1633

Rembrandt van Rijn
Abduction of Europa
1632

Peter Paul Rubens
Entombment
c. 1612

Peter Paul Rubens
Miracles of St. Francis of Paola
c. 1627-28

Anthony Van Dyck
Agostino Pallavicini
1621-23

Anthony Van Dyck
Thomas Howard, second Earl of Arundel
1620-21 

Thomas Howard, immediately above, was one of the few English art collectors who could compete with their art-loving king, Charles I. When the English Civil War broke out in the 1640s, Howard went into exile on the Continent. He died in Italy with the war still unresolved.