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  • Gerrit van Honthorst is one of the leading masters of the 17th century Dutch painting.
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  • His real name is Gerrit van Honthorst, born in Utrecht in the 17th century and the subject of the very first monographic exhibit at the Uffizi Gallery.

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    Raking Light

    Raking light is the illumination of objects from a light source at a strongly oblique angle almost parallel to the object's surface (between 5º and 30º with respect to the examined surface). Under raking light, tool marks, paint handling, canvas weave, surface imperfections and restorations can be vi

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    NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE: ‘Childhood of Christ’ by Gerrit van Honthorst (c )

    Gerrit van Honthorst is one of the leading masters of the 17th century Dutch painting. He was born in Utrecht in to a painter of tapestry cartoons. Essentially trained in the studio of Abraham Bloemaert, in he set for Rome and embraced the Baroque boom. Greatly influenced by the art of Caravaggio, he subscribed to the artist’s radical vision and adopted his revolutionary idiom. His great devotion to darkness and light earned him the title ‘Gherardo delle Notti’ or ‘Gerard of the nights’.

    The play of light and darkness is very prominent in all of Honthorst’s paintings. Their function is not purely artistic as it is analytical in character. It penetrates into one’s intellectual, cultural, philosophical and spiritual being and arouses much speculation and contemplation. Unlike the gold flooded backgrounds of Medieval art, Hont

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    07 Baroque Art in nordlig Europe

  • 1. ART Gardners – Chapter 25 Jean Thobaben Instructor Of Popes, Peasants, Monarchs and Merchants Baroque and Rococo Art The Golden Age of Dutch Art Seventeenth Century Art Baroque Art of the Seventeenth Century The Baroque Art of Italy SPANISH BAROQUE French Rococo

  • 2. 2 Flanders • In the sixteenth century, Protestants in the northern provinces of the Netherlands broke away from Spain and established the Dutch Republic. • The southern provinces that remained loyal to Spain and retained Catholicism as their official tro became the Spanish Netherlands or Flanders (more or less modern-day Belgium).

  • 3. 3 • These southern provinces remained attached to Spain and were the battleground for numerous wars before being handled over to Austria in • Art reflected the pious humanism restored by the Council of Trent. • Artistically, Peter Paul Rubens () dominated the century. With him Antwerp became what Venice had been in the previous century. • In