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This background allowed him to incorporate Enlightenment ideas into his artwork. The so-called "Borghese Gladiator", the work of Agasias of Ephesus (Louvre Museum) In many ways, The Gladiator embodied these Enlightenment ideas. The use of the model of the Borghese Gladiator made the painting a sort of "modern genre image."
Portrait of a Man with a Magnifying Glass, possibly Pieter Haaringh: 1665: Oil on canvas: 91.4 x 74.3: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 311a: Companion piece to 311b Portrait of a Woman with a Carnation, possibly Lysbet Jansdr Delft: 1665: Oil on canvas: 92.1 x 74.6: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 311b: Companion piece to 311a
Portrait of a Scholar at his Desk (formerly called Lipsius) c. 1645: Oil paint: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne Portrait of a Man Reading by Candlelight: 1648: Oil paint: Clark Art Institute, Williamstown Seated old man with a cane in fanciful costume: 1645: Oil on canvas: 128 x 112: Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Seated old man with a cane ...
Self portrait bare-headed: bust, roughly etched: 1629 S376: 1: A beggar in a tall hat and long cloak, with a cottage and two figures in the background: About 1629 or earlier B012: 1: Self portrait in a fur cap, in an oval border: About 1629 B095: 1: Peter and John at the gate of the Temple: roughly etched: About 1629 B106: 1: St. Jerome ...
Joseph Wright ARA (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter.He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution".
The full moon in the picture is significant as meetings of the Lunar Circle (renamed the Lunar Society by 1775) were timed to make use of its light when travelling.. Wright met Erasmus Darwin in the early 1760s, probably through their common connection of John Whitehurst, first consulting Darwin about ill health in 1767 when he stayed in the Darwin household for a week. [8]
The candlelight most likely stands for spiritual enlightenment. Martha with Magdalene at the Mirror was also painted by Caravaggio during the 16th century. [1] Magdalene with Two Flames (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) is an oil-on-canvas painting created between 1625 and 1650. The exact date is unknown.
Godfried Schalcken (8 October 1643 – 16 November 1706) was a Dutch artist who specialized in genre paintings and portraits. Schalcken was noted for his night scenes and mastery in reproducing the effect of candlelight. He painted in the highly polished style of the Leiden fijnschilders.