Sunday, July 23, 2017

Painted in the 1560s

Anonymous French painter
Portrait of a noblewoman
1560s
oil on panel
Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm
 
Frans Floris
Fall of Man
ca. 1560
oil on panel
Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden

ANCHISES TO AENEAS IN THE UNDERWORLD

Each one of us our penaunce here abides, than sent we bee
To Paradise at last, we few these fieldes of joy do see:
Till compass long of time, by perfit course, hath purged quight
Our former cloddrid spots, and simple sparkes of heavenly light.
Then all, when they a thousand yeeres that wheele have turned about,
To drinke of Lethee flood, by clusters great, God calls them out,
That these forgetting all their former lives, and former sin,
The mortall world afresh in bodies new they may begin.

– from Book 6 of the Aeneid of Virgil, this translation by Thomas Phaër composed before 1560 but not published until 1584

Frans Floris
Pomona
1564-65
oil on canvas
Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm

Steven van der Meulen
Portrait of a woman
probably Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys

1562
oil on panel
Yale Center for British Art
 
Marco Marchetti
Annunciation
ca. 1565-75
oil on panel
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cesena

Titian
The Tribute Money
ca. 1560-68
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Jacopo Bassano
The Good Samaritan
ca. 1562-63
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Paolo Veronese
Consecration of St Nicholas
1562
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Nicolas Neufchâtel
Portrait of a young lady
ca. 1561
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

THE DEATH OF DIDO

Speedelye bring me water, thee greene wound swiftlye toe souple;
And yf in her carcasse soom wind yeet softley be breathing,
With lip I will nurse yt: thus sayd shee climbd toe the woodpile,
Claspt in her arms bracing thee panting murtheres haulf-quick,
With grunt wyde gasping: thee blackned gellyeblud, hardning,
Shee skums with napkins; shee would have lifted her eyebal,
Feeble agayne weixing shee droups; thee deadlye push yrcks her.
Thrise she did endevoure, too mount and rest on her elbow;
Thrise to her bed sliding shee quayls, with whirligig eyesight
Up to the sky staring, with belling skrichcrye she roareth,
When she the desyred soonbeams with faynt eye receaved.

– from Book 4 of the Aeneid of Virgil, this translation by Richard Stanyhurst (1547-1618), first published in 1582

Steven van der Meulen
Portrait of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester
before 1564
oil on panel
Yale Center for British Art

Jacopo Tintoretto
Portrait of Doge Pietro Loredano
1567-70
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Giorgio Vasari
Storming of the Fortress of Stampace in Pisa
1568-71
fresco
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Giorgio Vasari
Rout of the Pisans at Torre San Vincenzo
1568-71
fresco
Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Hans Vredeman de Vries
Architectural caprice with figures
1568
oil on panel
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao