Thursday, July 27, 2017

Painted around 1600 in Europe

Maerten de Vos
The Earth
before 1603
oil on canvas
Prado, Madrid

Maerten de Vos
The Air
before 1603
oil on canvas
Prado, Madrid

Maerten de Vos
Last Supper
before 1603
oil on canvas
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

ROMA

Again and again I kiss thy gates at departing
And against our will leave thy holy door-stone,
Praying in tears and with praises
              such words as can pierce our tears.

Hear us, Queen, fairest in all the earth, Roma,
Taking post twixt the sky's poles,
Nurse of men! Mother of gods,
                                          do thou hear us.
Even we hymn thee and will, while the Fates can have power.
No guest can forget thee.
              It were worse crime than forgetting the sun
If we ceased holding thy honor in heart,
Thou impartial as sunlight to the splash of all outer sea-boards.
All that Apollo over-rides in his quadriga
Hast thou combined into equity:
Many strange folk in one fatherland,
To their good, not seeking to dominate;
Gavest law to the conquered as consorts;
Made city what had been world.

They say that Venus was thy mother, that is by Aeneas,
Mars for father hadst'ou through Romulus,
Making mild armed strength, she in conquest:
One god in two natures;
                                       Joy out of strife by sparing
O'ercamest the sources of terror
In love with all that remains.

Rutilius Claudius Namatianus was born in Gaul in the late fourth century AD, and held high office at the court of Honorius. His poem of return from Rome, De Reditu Suo, contains a famous tribute to the city, written shortly after its siege and sack by Alaric the Goth in AD 410. This translation was made by Ezra Pound in 1963.

Joachim Wtewael
Martyrdom of St Sebastian
1600
oil on canvas
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Joachim Wtewael
Annunciation to the Shepherds
1606
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Hans von Aachen
Bacchus, Ceres and Amor
ca. 1595-1605
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Abraham Bloemaert
Joseph and his Brothers
ca. 1595-1600
oil on canvas
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Orazio Gentileschi
Stigmatization of St Francis
ca. 1600-1601
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Giulio Cesare Procaccini
Coronation of the Virgin, with St Joseph and St Francis of Assisi
ca. 1604-07
oil on panel
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

John de Critz the Elder
Portrait of James I of England
ca. 1606
oil on canvas
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

Caravaggio
Ecce Homo
1605
oil on canvas
Galleria di Palazzo Bianco, Genoa

Caravaggio
Crowning with Thorns
ca. 1602-04
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Caravaggio
Madonna of the Rosary
ca. 1605-07
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Battistello Caracciolo
Two youths with grapes
ca. 1605
oil on panel
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide