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| Joachim von Sandrart The Good Samaritan 1632 oil on canvas Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Allegory of Night ca. 1654-56 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Odysseus and Nausicaa ca. 1639 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Minerva and Saturn protecting Art and Science from Envy and Falsehood 1644 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
"Joachim von Sandrart was born in 1606 in Frankfurt am Main where he trained under two minor local painters, Georg Keller and later Sebastian Stosskopf. From 1623 to 1625 he studied in Utrecht with Gerrit van Honthorst with whom he briefly sojourned to England, where he met Orazio Gentileschi. In 1628 he traveled by way of Frankfurt to Italy. He was in Venice until 1629 and then made his way, with a brief visit to Bologna, to Rome, where he settled for six years. Through a very useful close acquaintanceship with the Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani, Sandrart came into contact with the circle of the Caravaggisti. In 1630-31 he traveled "in good company" to Naples, Sicily and Malta, the latter being of particular interest to him because of the works painted there by Caravaggio. From 1635 onwards Sandrart was again active in Germany and briefly also in Utrecht, Amsterdam and other Netherlandish cities. From 1645 to 1670 he lived in very comfortable circumstances on his estate at Stockau near Ingolstadt where he occupied himself with artistic, literary and agricultural projects. . . . Sandrart, the "German Apelles," is, along with Adam Elsheimer and Karl Loth, the most notable representative of German art during its darkest period. He was, however, little more than a skillful eclectic and a facile practitioner; he is far more interesting for his worldly and multifaceted personality than for his originality or accomplishments as an artist."
– Hermann Voss, from Baroque Painting in Rome (1925), revised and translated by Thomas Pelzel (San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1997)
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| Joachim von Sandrart Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria, with St Leopold and St William 1647 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Holy Family in a Landscape before 1688 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Officers and other Members of the Militia of District XIX in Amsterdam ca. 1638-40 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Young Woman with Maid at a Fish Market, with Shells and a Narwhal 1654-55 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Allegories of the Months - November 1643 oil on canvas Schleissheim State Gallery, Munich |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Allegories of the Months - February ca. 1642 oil on canvas Schleissheim State Gallery, Munich |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Allegories of the Months - September ca. 1644 drawing (made after the painting as model for a print) Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Joachim von Sandrart The Holy Kinship (Madonna and Child and St John the Baptist) with Prophets and Symbols of the Four Evangelists before 1688 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Pygmalion 1662 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Joachim von Sandrart Cupid pissing into Chamber Pot held by an Old Woman 1640 etching British Museum |