Caravaggists and Italianists in Utrecht Oil painting Frame
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The Centraal Museum in Utrecht is holding an exhibition entitled "Utrecht's Golden Age: Caravaggists and Italianists from Dutch Collections" until September 23rd 2001. custom portraits Oil painting Frame
The Golden Age of Dutch art is generally associated with painters like Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer and Frans Hals who are typically identified with just one of the Republic’s provinces: Holland. Less well known is Utrecht's Golden Age. masterpiece painting Oil painting Frame
17th Century Utrecht was the cradle of Dutch art, the centre in which various styles and themes where developed. The Centraal Museum therefore invited Dr Albert Blankert to mark his coming retirement from Utrecht University by organising a major exhibition on the subject for this summer. oil painting on canvas Oil painting Frame
Blankert, who began his career as a curator at the Centraal Museum in 1962 and was subsequently acclaimed as one of the world’s leading Rembrandt and Vermeer specialists, chose a selection of key works from Dutch museum and private collections. oil portrait
:About fifty of the finest paintings are featured, at least half are from Dutch museum and private collections, the rest are from the Centraal Museum itself - home of the world’s largest collection of Utrecht's Golden Age paintings. pet portrait Oil painting Frame
It was the Caravaggists who gave painting in Utrecht in this period its own unique character. This new, international style owed its inspiration to the work of Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) and bore a major influence on the development of 17th century painting. Rembrandt’s dramatic naturalism, for example, had its roots in Caravaggism. In fact Caravaggio’s influence was even more widespread: in addition to artists from Utrecht, Rome also attracted painters from the rest of Italy, Spain and France.Wedding painting In Utrecht a local variation of the style developed, with Dirck van Baburen, Paulus Bor, Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerard van Honthorst among its leading exponents. Because of the virtuosity of his chiaroscuro (light-dark), Honthorst was known among contemporaries as 'Gherardo delle Notti'.
In addition to the Caravaggists, the Italianists also travelled to Italy and drew their inspiration from the south of Europe. These landscape painters lived and worked in the early half of the 17th century, around the same time as Van Goyen and Ruysdael, and had a great an influence on Dutch landscape art as their - now more famous - fellow artists. baby portrait Many of them spent several years in Italy, cultivating their fascination with the Italian light and the Mediterranean atmosphere. Rather than the Dutch countryside, their works feature the towns, mountains and woods of Italy. Leading Utrecht Italianists included Cornelis van Poelenburch, Jan Both and Jan Baptist Weenix. Oil painting Frame