Tag: 1631

San Sebastiano curato da Irene (c.1630-1640)

Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Sebastiano curato da Irene (Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene and Her Maid) c.1630–1640 Oil on canvas, 208 x 157 cm Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia Compare: Ribera, Jusepe de (1591-1652) San Sebastiano curato da Sant’Irene 1628 Hermitage Museum, Saint…

John Dryden

(1631–1700) Works: • All for Love; Or, The World Well Lost: A Tragedy (English) • Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry (English) • Dryden’s Palamon and Arcite (English) • His Majesties Declaration Defended (English) • The Aeneid, Translated by…

Cabeza de venado (1626-1636)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cabeza de venado (Head of a Deer) 1626–1636 Oil on canvas, 66 x 52 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid While there is no documentation indicating this work was made for the Torre de la Parada, its subject…

Old Man with a Gold Chain (1631)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Old Man with a Gold Chain 1631 Oil on panel, 83.1 x 75.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago This evocative character study is an early example of a type of subject that preoccupied the great Dutch master…

An Old Woman Reading (1631)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) An Old Woman Reading, Probably the Prophetess Hannah 1631 Oil on panel, 60 x 48 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Here the light comes from behind the old woman: the brightest illumination falls on the book and her wrinkled hand,…

Portrait of a Scholar (1631)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Portrait of a Scholar 1631 Oil on canvas, 104.5 x 92 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg In the first decade of his life in Amsterdam, to which the young Rembrandt moved from Leiden in 1631, he gained initial fame…

Cristo en la cruz (1631)

Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) Cristo en la cruz (Christ on the Cross) 1631 Oil on canvas, 100 x 57 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Unlike the Christ Crucified (P1161) from the convent of San Plácido, whose authorship and extraordinary merits are…

1631

Rulers: • Charles I, King of England (1625-1649) • Charles I, King of Ireland (1625-1649) • Charles I, King of Scotland (1625-1649) • Felipe IV, King of Spain (1621-1665) • Felipe IV, King of Portugal (1621-1640) • Francesco I d’Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio (1629-1658) • Urbanus…