Friday, July 28, 2017

European Paintings 1610-1620

Orazio Gentileschi
Virgin with sleeping Christ Child
ca. 1610
oil on canvas
Harvard Art Museums

Pieter Lastman
The Resurrection
1612
oil on panel
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Pieter Lastman
Orestes and Pylades disputing at the altar
1614
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Pieter Lastman
The Angel and Tobias with the Fish
ca. 1610-20
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

"Then the child went out, and the angel with him, and the dog went out with him and walked with them.  And they both walked, and the first night came upon them, and they camped by the Tigris river.  Then the child went down to wash his feet in the Tigris River.  And a large fish, leaping up from the water, wanted to swallow the foot of the young man, and he cried out.  Then the angel said to the young man, "Take hold of the fish, and hang on!"  So the child seized the fish and carried it up onto the land.  Then the angel said to him, "Rip open the fish, and take out its gall and heart and liver, and put them aside for you, but the entrails throw away.  For its gall and heart and liver are useful in medicine."  So cutting open the fish, the young man gathered together the gall and heart and liver; then he roasted and ate some of the fish and kept some of it salted.

"And the two walked together until they drew near to Media.  And then the young man asked the angel and said to him, "Brother Azarias, what is the medicine in the fish's heart and liver and in the gall?"  And he said to him, "As for the fish's heart and liver, burn them to smoke in the presence of a man or woman afflicted by a demon or evil spirit, and every affliction will flee away from him, and will not remain with him any longer.  And as for the gall, anoint a person's eyes on which white films have come up; blow upon them, upon the white films, and they will be healed."

– from the Book of Tobit, in A New English Translation of the Septuagint (Oxford University Press, 2007)

Robert Peake the Elder
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Pope
ca. 1615
oil on panel
Tate Britain

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger
Portrait of a lady
ca. 1615-18
oil on panel
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Paul van Somer
Portrait of a young girl
ca. 1615
oil on panel
Yale Center for British Art

Peter Paul Rubens
Judgement of Solomon
1616-17
oil on panel
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

"Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.  And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house; and it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.  And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it.  And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.  And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear.  And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son.  And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son.  Thus they spake before the king.  Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.  And the king said, Bring me a sword.  And they brought a sword before the king.  And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.  Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it.  But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it.  Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.  And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment."

– from I Kings, chapter 3, Authorized Version (1611)

Peter Paul Rubens
Miracles of St Francis Xavier
1616-17
oil on panel (modello for altarpiece)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Peter Paul Rubens
St Sebastian
ca. 1618
oil on canvas
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Peter Paul Rubens
Assumption of the Virgin
ca. 1616-18
oil on panel
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Pedro Orrente
Sacrifice of Isaac
ca. 1616
oil on canvas
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao

Jacob Jordaens
The Tribute Money
(Peter finding the silver coin in the mouth of the fish)

ca. 1616
oil on canvas
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Abraham Bloemaert
Four Evangelists writing Gospels around a table
ca. 1612-15
oil on canvas
Princeton University Art Museum