Tag: 1612

The Garden of Eden (c.1610-1612)

Brueghel, Jan the Elder (1568-1625) The Garden of Eden c.1610–1612 Oil on panel, 59.4 x 95.6 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid ©Colección Carmen Thyssen Brueghel was born into a famous dynasty of artists and, together with Rubens, he was generally regarded as…

Frans Post

(1612–1680) Frans Janszoon Post The artist’s works: The Old Portuguese Fort of the Three Kings 1638 Musée du Louvre, Paris A Brazilian Landscape 1650 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Brazilian Landscape 1650s Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Landscape in Dutch Brazil 1652 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam…

Danae (c.1612)

Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Danae c.1612 Oil on copper, 41.3 × 52.7 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis

Le lacrime di San Pietro (c.1612-1613)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) Le lacrime di San Pietro (The Tears of Saint Peter) c.1612–1613 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 114.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Spanish by birth, Ribera moved to Italy when he was fourteen or fifteen. He…

Visión del Apocalipsis (1608-1614)

El Greco (1541-1614) Visión del Apocalipsis (The Vision of Saint John) c.1608–1614 Oil on canvas, 222.3 x 193 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The painting is a fragment from a large altarpiece commissioned for the church of the…

Saskia van Uylenburgh

(1612–1642) Saskia in Art: Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Woman in Profile c.1636 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford     Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Saskia s.d. National Gallery of Art, Washington     Rembrandt (1606-1669) Bellona 1633 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York    …

1612

Rulers: • James I, King of England and Ireland (1603-1625) • James VI, King of Scotland (1567-1625) Births: • Post, Frans (1612-1680) • Uylenburgh, Saskia van (1612-1642) Deaths: • Rudolf II (1552-1612) Literature: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): The Tempest (1612) Architecture: • Jardin du Luxembourg (Paris) Art: •…