Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) The Meeting of Odysseus and Nausicaa c.1630–1640 Oil on canvas, 117.5 x 194 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Jordaens was one of the most renowned and versatile Antwerp painters. Here he illustrates an episode from Homer’s Odyssey. Odysseus, naked and…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en oración (Saint Francis in prayer) c.1630–1640 Oil on canvas, 134 x 97 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Rainbow Landscape c.1636 Oil on oak panel, 135.6 x 235 cm Wallace Collection, London
Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640) The Abduction of Ganymede c.1636 Oil on oak panel, 33 x 24.8 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
Rembrandt (1606-1669) Self portrait with Saskia 1636 Etching, 10.4 x 9.5 cm Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Rembrandt painted, etched, and drew more than seventy-five self-portraits. A few of these include his first wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh, whom he married in…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) San Francisco en meditación (Saint Francis in Meditation) 1635–1639 Oil on canvas, 152 × 99 cm National Gallery, London
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Le Triomphe de Silène (The Triumph of Silenus) c.1636 Oil on canvas, 142.9 × 120.5 cm National Gallery, London This was one of three bacchanalian scenes Poussin painted for the powerful French minister, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585–1642). See…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Woman in Profile (possibly Saskia) c.1636 Oil on panel, 68.6 x 78.1 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford See also: • Uylenburgh, Saskia van (1612-1642)
Gentileschi, Artemisia (1593-c.1653) Betsabea (Bathsheba) c.1636–1637 Oil on canvas, 265.4 x 209.5 cm Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) Une danse sur la musique du temps (A Dance to the Music of Time) c.1634–1636 Oil on canvas, 82.5 x 104 cm Wallace Collection, London