The 1000++ Artworks of media Wood and containing the word johannes vermeer, wood, baroque

Margravine Caroline Louise of Baden, who is one of the key figures of the Karlsruhe art collection, particularly sought out marvellously delicate works of fine painting, whose format and subject matter was of an intimate nature. Dutch Realism spoke to her more than the monumental gestures of the Bar...

Like

Buy

A housewife holds an apple, which in this context more likely refers to the New Eve (the Virgin Mary) than the old one. The birdcage and hearth imply happy domesticity, while the grapevine alludes to the woman as 'a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house' (Psalm 128). The original buyer of such a...

Like

Buy

This idyllic landscape, with skittle players and figures seated on the grass outside The White Swan inn, is an unusual subject for Jan Steen, who is best known as a painter of rowdy domestic and tavern interiors. These inns are always packed with visitors, and the confused murmur of many voices is ...

Like

Buy

Rubens made this oil sketch in preparation for a large canvas formerly in Berlin (it was destroyed in 1945). The final composition was proportionately taller, with God the Father moved closer to the Virgin. The wispy application of white highlighting is characteristic of Rubens’s painterly oil sketc...

Like

Buy

Like many of Rubens’s other works, this painting illustrates a story from the Metamorphoses of the Roman poet Ovid (completed A.D. 8). Meleager has killed a monstrous boar and presents its head to Atalanta, with whom he has fallen in love. In the background is a snake-haired Fury—a reference to the ...

Like

Buy

Das Gemälde von Rubens (1577-1640) bestand ursprünglich aus zwei Skizzen, die als Entwurf für Kartons geschaffen wurden. Diese dienten ihrerseits als Vorlage einer Teppichserie. Bei den Gobelins handelte es sich um eine Serie des /

Like

Buy