Tag: 1623

Jester with a Lute (c.1623-1624)

Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Jester with a Lute c.1623–1624 Oil on canvas, 70 x 62 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris The title of Bouffon (it dates back at least to 1921) refers to the world of theater (stripes of costume) and the genre…

Blaise Pascal

(1623–1662) Works: • Notes de Voltaire et de Condorcet sur les pensées de Pascal (French) • Pascal’s Pensées (English) • The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal (English) Born June 19 1623 Clermont-Ferrand (France) Died August 19 1662 Paris (France) Occupation Inventor Mathematician…

Self-Portrait (1623)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Self-Portrait 1623 Oil on panel, 85.7 x 62.2 x 0.5 cm Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace, London

Portrait of Isabella Brant (c.1620-1625)

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) Portrait of Isabella Brant c.1620–1625 Oil on wood, 53 x 46 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Isabella Brant was Rubens’s first wife. He painted her many times in many different ways before she died at the…

La Cena de Emaús (1622-1623)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La Cena de Emaús (The Supper at Emmaus) 1622–1623 Oil on canvas, 123.2 x 132.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting depicts the moment after the Resurrection when Jesus is recognized by two disciples as…

Gregorius XV (Papa)

(1554–1623) Alessandro Ludovisi Pope Gregory XV (1621–1623) Alessandro Ludovisi in Art: Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Busto di papa Gregorio XV 1621 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto     Guercino (1591-1666) San Gregorio e Santi c.1625–1626 National Gallery, London     See also: • Popes

Felipe IV (1623)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Felipe IV (Philip IV) 1623 Oil on canvas, 198 x 101.5 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid We see King Philip IV of Spain (r. 1621-1665) when he was around twenty years old in an austere image filled…