Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Apotheosis of James I and Other Studies: Multiple Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling, Whitehall c.1628–1630 Oil on oak, 94.7 x 63 cm Tate Britain, London Rubens was the leading artist in Antwerp, and one of the…
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) The Mocking of Christ 1628–1630 Oil on canvas, 112 x 93 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton The most brilliant of Peter Paul Rubens’s assistants, Van Dyck left Antwerp to pursue his career in London and Genoa.…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Una taza de agua y una rosa (A Cup of Water and a Rose) c.1630 Oil on canvas, 21.2 × 30.1 cm National Gallery, London In this small and intimate painting – it only measures around 20 by…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Santa Margarita de Antioquía (Saint Margaret of Antioch) 1630–1634 Oil on canvas, 163 × 105 cm National Gallery, London The fourth-century saint Margaret was said to come from the city of Antioch. Her father, a pagan priest, cast…
Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Pietro penitente (Penitent Saint Peter) 1628–1632 Oil on canvas, 126.5 × 97 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Emerging from darkness into a blaze of light falling from heaven, Saint Peter’s enraptured upward expression and gesture…
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt c.1630 Oil on canvas, 231.5 x 153 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco de Asís en su tumba (Saint Francis of Assisi in His Tomb) 1630–1634 Oil on canvas, 204.79 × 113.35 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Portrait of Justus Sustermans 1630–1632 and 1645–1646 Etching, 252 x 167 mm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam See also: • Sustermans, Justus (1597-1681)
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Christ on the Cross 1628–1630 Oil on canvas, 133 x 101 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Compare: Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Christ on the Cross 1627 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Van Dyck, Anthony (1599-1641) Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine of Alexandria c.1630 Oil on canvas, 109.2 x 90.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The infant Jesus responds with playful enthusiasm to an adoring Saint Catherine, a princess identified by…