Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Italian Views by Willem Schellinks (17th century)

Willem Schellinks
Landscape with the Ponte Molle (Pons Milvius) over the Tiber near Rome
before 1678
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Willem Schellinks
Roman ruins
before 1678
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem Schellinks
Apse of the Church of SS Giovanni e Paolo, Rome
before 1678
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

"Amsterdam artist Willem Schellinks (1623-1678) took two formative trips south in the course of his career.  He traveled to France with fellow artist Lambert Doomer in 1646 and, upon his return to the Netherlands, began creating works with Italianate subjects.  From 1661 to 1665 he went abroad a second time, to Italy.  In Rome, he became a member of the Schildersbent, a society of Northern European artists who used the Roman Campagna, particularly antique ruins, as the subject of their works."

– curator's notes from the Morgan Library, New York

Willem Schellinks
View in Rome, with so-called Temple of Vesta
before 1678
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

attributed to Willem Schellinks
Round tower on a promontory above an Italian town at the edge of a lake
before 1678
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

attributed to Willem Schellinks
Ruins of aqueduct with house built into one end
before 1678
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Willem Schellinks after Jan Asselijn
Round ruin and herdsmen by a watering place
1658
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem Schellinks
Walls of Rome - Houses near the Ripa Grande
before 1678
drawing
British Museum

Willem Schellinks
Italian landscape
before 1678
drawing
British Museum

Willem Schellinks
Italian landscape
before 1678
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem Schellinks
Grotto of Virgil at Posillipo near Naples
ca. 1661-65
drawing
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Willem Schellinks
Naples with Mt Vesuvius
ca. 1661-65
drawing
British Museum

Willem Schellinks
View of Piazza del Duomo in Messina, with Fountain of Orion
ca. 1661-65
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Willem Schellinks
View of Valetta on Malta, with the Fontana Nuova
1664
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna