Monday, November 15, 2021

Sixteenth-Century Landscapes by Dutch Painters

Anonymous Netherlandish Artist
Anthropomorphic Landscape (Female)
ca. 1550-1600
oil on panel
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Anonymous Netherlandish Artist
Anthropomorphic Landscape (Male)
ca. 1550-1600
oil on panel
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Anonymous Netherlandish Artist
detail of Anthropomorphic Landscape (Male)
ca. 1550-1600
oil on panel
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Jan Nagel
Miracle at the Grave of Elisha
1596
oil on panel
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Jan Nagel
The Deluge
ca. 1590
oil on panel
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Jan Soens
Armida and Rinaldo in the Enchanted Garden
(scene from Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata)
ca. 1580
oil on panel
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Jan Soens
Holy Family with young St John the Baptist
ca. 1560-70
oil on canvas
Manchester Art Gallery

attributed to Jan van Scorel
Landscape with Bathsheba
ca. 1540-45
oil on panel
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

Jan van Scorel
Baptism of Christ
ca. 1530
oil on panel
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Jan van Scorel
Tower of Babel in a Landscape
ca. 1550
oil on panel
Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice

Hans Vredeman de Vries
Allegory of Salvation and Sin
1596
oil on panel
National Museum, Gdańsk, Poland

Lambert Sustris
Baptism of the Ethiopian Eunuch by the Deacon Philip
ca. 1545-50
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Lambert Sustris
Noli me tangere
ca. 1548-60
oil on canvas
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Lambert Sustris
Road to Calvary
ca. 1542-48
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Lambert Sustris
Landscape with Jupiter and Io
ca. 1557-63
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

what reality?

The dinosaur and the microwave and the Cupid Shuffle and the Barbie doll and the Great Wall of China and Chernobyl and pumice and wine caves and slavery and the Bible and Stonehenge and Audrey Hepburn and Tuesday and the Enlightenment and the fidget spinner and linoleum and gay conversion camps and Hiroshima and the Thirteen Colonies and the letter E and The Beatles and segregated water fountains and anthropomorphism and Singapore and the color beige and Mesopotamia and plastic straws and Frederick Douglass and hyenas and the Confederate flag and Copernicus and Selena and communism and daffodils and Jedi and the Silk Road and Coca-Cola and Jesus and the Great Depression and Guanajuato and the Teletubbies and Tesla and Czechoslovakia and Black Lives Matter and Benjamin Franklin and Greek statues and rainbows and the Loch Ness monster and Marilyn Monroe and Paquita la del Barrio and tiny homes and hollyhocks and Jeff Bezos and Goldilocks and Silly Bandz and Aspen and Beethoven and the Juul and undocumented people and crocodiles and astrology and fire and Monet and lemon juice and Ella Fitzgerald and Cholula and cumulo nimbus clouds and identity categories and Aristotle and Crocs and the Crusades and Coachella and the Great Pyramid and Bob Dylan and the guillotine and the Cuban Revolution and Alexa and apple pie and Colin Kaepernick and the Motorola Razr and the Tower of Babel and Alan Turing and Eurydice and Wellbutrin and Wyoming and Jeffrey Dahmer and Saturn and the Statue of Liberty and Kylie Cosmetics and the Buddha and doves and Area 51 and the Wampanoag Tribe and Froot Loops and rollerblades and Shakespeare and Woodstock and tamales and Napoleon and Tootsie Rolls and the seven noble truths and mitochondria and teepees and the Sistine Chapel and Meryl Streep and Andromeda and West Virginia and VSCO and Audre Lorde and a watering hole and boxing gloves and cilantro and the Eiffel Tower and diamonds and the Fourth of July and Narnia and Queen Elizabeth and TikTok and bats and Louis Vuitton and the telescope and Spongebob and Karl Marx and Trader Joe's and Matryoshka dolls and the Ford Model T and Halley's Comet and YouTube and Yankee Candle and the Nobel Prize and bandanas and quinoa and the Mona Lisa and the Ten Commandments and glitter and Homer and maize and water slides and spaghetti and The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Gandhi and Breaking Bad and hieroglyphics and Madonna and turtles and Congress and metaphysics and the alphabet and quartz and the interstate and Japanese and LimeWire and Stephen King and the Titanic and Hegel and Honey Boo Boo and Mount Holyoke College and the New York Times and gender and Silly Putty and the Dakota Access Pipeline and Pope Francis and hunter-gatherers and the dark web and arrowheads and Nestlé and OnlyFans and Beowulf and God

– Brayan Salinas (2020)