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Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) - Martyrdom of Saint Matthew

Martyrdom of Saint Matthew Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

Religious
Saints

Caravaggio completed both Martyrdom of Saint Matthew and The Calling of Saint Matthew, his first two publicly commissioned works, for the Contarelli Chapel in Rome in 1600. This painting marks the exact time when the orthodox Mannerism gave way to Baroque emotionality, and immediately catapulted Car...

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Annibale Carracci - Pietà

Pietà Annibale Carracci

The Virgin Mary cradles the body of her crucified son. The monumental scale of the figures and the pyramidal composition convey the magnitude of Christ’s death and the suffering of his mother. Two sorrowful angels guide the viewer to contemplate Christ’s wounded hand and his crown of thorns. Yet Jes...

Palace of Capodimonte (Naples, Italy)

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Peter Paul Rubens - The Birth of Marie de- Medici

The Birth of Marie de' Medici Peter Paul Rubens

Oil	Birth And Death

The The Marie de' Medici cycle's second painting, The Birth of the Princess, represents de' Medici's April 26, 1573 birth. Symbols and allegory appear throughout the painting. On the left, two putti play with a shield on which the Medici crest appears, suggesting that Heaven favored the young de' Me...

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Reni Guido (Le Guide) - Saint James the Greater

Saint James the Greater Reni Guido (Le Guide)

Guido Reni was the most famous Italian painter of his time, and his gift as a creator of religious images was unsurpassed. The idealized figures he painted, as well as the harmony, color, and sentiment of his work, made his name synonymous with grace and beauty. In the mid-16th century, as part of t...

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Peter Paul Rubens - The Landing at Marseilles, 3rd November 1600

The Landing at Marseilles, 3rd November 1600 Peter Paul Rubens

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Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) - The Tooth-Drawer

The Tooth-Drawer Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)

A number of paintings have been attributed from time to time to the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), but are no longer generally accepted as genuine. Immensely popular in his own lifetime, he fell into neglect almost immediately upon his death, with the result that now, ...

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Diego Velazquez - Count duke of Olivares

Count duke of Olivares Diego Velazquez

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Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn - Portrait of Willem Adriaen (--1625), Count of Hornes, Lord of Kessel and Westwezel, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1616 - c. 1633

Portrait of Willem Adriaen (?-1625), Count of Hornes, Lord of Kessel and Westwezel, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1616 - c. 1633 Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn

The Leeuwarden Series: Commanders-in-Chief of the Forces of the States-General Willem Adriaen was general of the artillery of the States-General from 1603 to 1628. In 1606, he became governor of Geertruidenberg, and in 1613 governor of Heusden after the death of his brother Maximiliaan, who had held...

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Cornelis Engelsz - Portrait of Floris Gerritsz van Schoterbosch (c. 1562-1618), Cornelis Engelsz (attributed to), c. 1620

Portrait of Floris Gerritsz van Schoterbosch (c. 1562-1618), Cornelis Engelsz (attributed to), c. 1620 Cornelis Engelsz

On the basis of the inscribed date and age of the sitter on the front of this portrait, Floris Gerritsz van Schoterbosch would have been born around 1562. He was a son of Gerrit Willemsz van Schoterbosch. Beginning in 1579, he was registered under the name Florentius Gerardi as a law student at Leid...

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Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn - Portrait Jan the Elder (1535-1606), Count of Nassau, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1610 - c. 1620

Portrait Jan the Elder (1535-1606), Count of Nassau, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1610 - c. 1620 Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn

The Katzenelnbogen Series For Jan the Elder’s biography see the entry on De Geest’s Group Portrait of the Four Brothers of Willem I, Prince of Orange (SK-A-566). The ruff worn by Jan the Elder here is different from the one he has in De Geest’s portrait. The present work was probably copied after an...

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Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn - Portrait of Philip Ernst (1585-1629), Count of Hohenlohe zu Langenburg, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1609 - c. 1633

Portrait of Philip Ernst (1585-1629), Count of Hohenlohe zu Langenburg, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1609 - c. 1633 Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn

The Leeuwarden Series: Foreigners in the Service of the States-General The son of Wolfgang II and Magdalena, Countess of Nassau-Dillenburg, Philip Ernst served in the army of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II (1552-1612), before taking over his uncle Philips’s regiment in the States army upon his de...

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Anthony Van Dyck - The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph

The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph Anthony Van Dyck

After spending several years in Italy, where he acquired a refined knowledge of Venetian painting, Anthony van Dyck returned to Antwerp in 1627. He joined the Jesuit Confraternity of Bachelors and in 1630 was appointed – as Rubens had been decades earlier – court painter to Isabella Clara Eugenia, t...

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna, Austria)

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Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn - Portrait of Joost de Zoete (--1589), Lord of Villers, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1609 - c. 1633

Portrait of Joost de Zoete (?-1589), Lord of Villers, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1609 - c. 1633 Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn

The Leeuwarden Series: Commanders-in-Chief of the Forces of the States-General A member of a noble Flemish family, Joost de Zoete early on supported the Nassau cause. In 1576, he commanded a company of 50 mounted arquebusiers. Two years later, in 1578, the Dutch defeat at Gemblours resulted in the l...

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Gerard Van Honthorst (Gerrit Van Honthorst) - Portrait of Willem III (1650-1702), Prince of Orange, Gerard van Honthorst (workshop of), c. 1653

Portrait of Willem III (1650-1702), Prince of Orange, Gerard van Honthorst (workshop of), c. 1653 Gerard Van Honthorst (Gerrit Van Honthorst)

The Leeuwarden Series: Members of the House of Nassau The only son of Willem II and Mary Stuart, Willem III was born eight days after the death of his father. His childhood was solitary and joyless. He suffered from asthma, and his upbringing was a major source of contention between his mother and h...

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El Greco (Doménikos Theotokopoulos) - The Resurrection

The Resurrection El Greco (Doménikos Theotokopoulos)

Oil	Religious Resurrection

The Resurrection (1596-1600) is a oil on canvas painting by the Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect El Greco. Probably painted for the Colegio de Doña Maria, Madrid. It is of the same size and shape as the Pentecost, to which it was almost certainly a pair. The place of these two pai...

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Gioacchino Assereto - Socrates drinks the hemlock

Socrates drinks the hemlock Gioacchino Assereto

At the beginning of the Seventeenth century there was in Genoa the rapid spread of the neostoicism advocated in Flanders by Giusto Lipsio (1547-1606), author of philosophical studies on the relationship between politics and morality, conducted in the light of the rediscovery of the texts of Tacitus ...

Fondazione Cariplo (Milan, Italy)

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Francisco Zurbaran - St Agatha

St Agatha Francisco Zurbaran

Oil	Saints Women

Born in Catania, Sicily, at the foot of Mount Etna, Agatha decided to remain a virgin and dedicate her life to Christ. The Prefect of Sicily, Quintian, hearing of her great beauty, tried to seduce her. Faced with her rejection, he sent her into a brothel, but even there she miraculously preserved he...

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El Greco (Doménikos Theotokopoulos) - Portrait of a Cardinal (Probably Cardinal Don Fernando Ni-#241;o de Guevara)

Portrait of a Cardinal (Probably Cardinal Don Fernando Niño de Guevara)El Greco (Doménikos Theotokopoulos)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, United States)

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Gerard Van Honthorst (Gerrit Van Honthorst) - Portrait of Willem II (1626-50), Prince of Orange, Gerard van Honthorst (workshop of), c. 1653

Portrait of Willem II (1626-50), Prince of Orange, Gerard van Honthorst (workshop of), c. 1653 Gerard Van Honthorst (Gerrit Van Honthorst)

The Leeuwarden Series: Members of the House of Nassau For Willem’s II’s biography see the entry on the 1647 portrait of him and his wife, Mary Stuart, by Honthorst (SK-A-871). The present work is a copy of Willem’s image in that portrait. Assuming that the three copies after Honthorst portraits in t...

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Sebastiaan Vrancx Or Sebastian Vranckx - The Skirmish Between Cuirassiers, 5 February 1600, on the Vughterheide, Sebastiaen Vrancx (after), c. 1635

The Skirmish Between Cuirassiers, 5 February 1600, on the Vughterheide, Sebastiaen Vrancx (after), c. 1635 Sebastiaan Vrancx Or Sebastian Vranckx

This notorious incident took place on the Vughterheide not far from ’s-Hertogenbosch on 5 February 1600.11 It resulted from a challenge by Pierre (or François) de Bréauté (1580-1600), a Norman cavalry officer based in Geertruidenberg, in the service of Prince Maurits of Orange, the Dutch stadholder,...

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Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn - Portrait of Daniel de Hertaing (--1625), Lord of Marquette, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1612 - c. 1633

Portrait of Daniel de Hertaing (?-1625), Lord of Marquette, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1612 - c. 1633 Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn

The Leeuwarden Series: Commanders-in-Chief of the Forces of the States-General Daniel de Hertaing belonged to a noble family from Hainaut. He is first mentioned in the history books for leading 2,000 infantrymen and four cavalry divisions in the defence of Bergen-op-Zoom against Parma’s troops (1588...

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Michiel Jansz Van Mierevelt - Portrait of Gustav II Adolf (1594-1632), King of Sweden, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (copy after), in or after c. 1633

Portrait of Gustav II Adolf (1594-1632), King of Sweden, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (copy after), in or after c. 1633 Michiel Jansz Van Mierevelt

Gustav II Adolf was the son of Carl IX Gustafsson Vasa and his second wife Christina, Duchess of Hollstein-Gottorp. He ascended the Swedish throne in 1611, married Eleonora, Margravine of Brandenburg, in 1620, and was killed near Lützen on 16 November 1632. Van Mierevelt’s lost portrait of Gustav II...

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Michiel Jansz Van Mierevelt - Portrait of a Man, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (copy after), in or after c. 1625

Portrait of a Man, Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt (copy after), in or after c. 1625 Michiel Jansz Van Mierevelt

Since the 1903 catalogue of the Rijksmuseum’s permanent collection, the Van Mierevelt signature on this bust-length portrait of a man has been doubted.2 Although this signature is painted wet in wet, the printed lower-case lettering does not conform to the two types of signature Van Mierevelt used: ...

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Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn - Portrait of Willem de Zoete de Laeke (--1637), Lord of Hautain, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1609 - c. 1633

Portrait of Willem de Zoete de Laeke (?-1637), Lord of Hautain, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1609 - c. 1633 Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn

The Leeuwarden Series: Commanders-in-Chief of the Forces of the States-General As lieutenant-admiral of Zeeland between 1601 and 1627, Willem de Zoete de Laeke was in charge of all warships of the States army. He distinguished himself in the Siege of Sluis in 1604 and was decorated by the States-Gen...

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Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn - Portrait of William (1592-1642), Count of Nassau-Siegen, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1620 - c. 1630

Portrait of William (1592-1642), Count of Nassau-Siegen, Jan Antonisz van Ravesteyn (workshop of), c. 1620 - c. 1630 Jan Antonisz Van Ravesteyn

The Katzenelnbogen Series The fifth son of Jan the Middle, Willem was educated at the court at Dillenburg where he was born, the court of the Archduke of Bouillon in Sedan, and in Heidelberg. His military career began in 1615 as captain of a company of 300 men in Braunschweig. In 1617, he joined his...

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