Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La Crucifixion (The Crucifixion) 1644–1646 Oil on canvas, 148.59 x 218.44 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford This Crucifixion dramatically illustrates the moment of Christ’s death when the sky went dark, graves were opened, and the bodies of the saved rose…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Family Group in a Landscape 1645–1648 Oil on canvas, 202 x 285 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Frans Hals is widely considered the most brilliant exponent of Dutch portraiture, a genre that enjoyed immense popularity in the seventeenth century.…
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)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) La costurera (The Needlewoman) c.1640–1650 Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Diego Velázquez ranks among the greatest masters of seventeenth-century Europe. By 1623, the twenty-four-year-old artist was established as court painter to…
Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Portrait of a Woman 1646 Oil on wood, 71.5 x 59.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Because of an inscription on the back, this painting was long considered a portrait of Anna Maria van Schurman, a prominent…
Cagnacci, Guido (1601-1663) La Morte di Cleopatra (The Death of Cleopatra) c.1645–1655 Oil on canvas, 95 × 75 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The subject, from Plutarch’s Lives (1st century A.D.), is Cleopatra’s suicide by an asp bite following the…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) & Workshop San Jerónimo con Santa Paula y San Eustoquio (Saint Jerome with Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium) c.1640–1650 Oil on fabric, 245.7 x 173.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington
Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Adoration of the Shepherds 1646 Oil on canvas, 97 x 71.3 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich The so-called ‘Passion Cycle’ was painted for the stadtholder of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, Prince Frederik Hendrik of Orange. The…