Tag: 1650

Portrait of a Man (early 1650s)

Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Man early 1650s Oil on canvas, 110.5 x 86.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this canvas of the early 1650s, the figure’s pose follows a pattern Hals employed twenty years earlier, but here…

René Descartes

(1596–1650) Renatus Cartesius Works: • A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences (English) • Betrachtungen über die Grundlagen der Philosophie (German) • Discours de la méthode (French) •…

La costurera (c.1640-1650)

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…

La Morte di Cleopatra (c.1645-1655)

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…

Corpus (c.1650)

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) Corpus (The Crucified Christ) c.1650 Bronze, 174 cm Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

A Bearded Man in a Cap (late 1650s)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) A Bearded Man in a Cap late 1650s Oil on canvas, 78 x 66.7 cm National Gallery, London This melancholy image of an old man lost in thought is one of a group of studies made by Rembrandt…