17th century dutch still life painting. Explore the greatest artists with our guide to the 10 most important old masters in dutch painting. The dutch golden age led to a tremendous outpouring of still life paintings in the 17th century. Painter of cool interiors dutch still life painting dutch church interiors related articles for a list of important dates concerning the evolution of arts and crafts.
The northern netherlandish provinces that made up the new state. Starting in the baroque period such paintings became popular in spain in the second quarter of the 17th century. Moralizing meanings are also common in independent still life paintings of the seventeenth century which range from such obviously didactic works as jacques de gheyn iis vanitas still life of 1603 and pieter claeszs still life with a skull and a writing quill of 1628 to rich displays of luxury items like abraham van beyerens still.
Portrait of jan six 1654 by rembrandt. Late ming kraak porcelain the voc and 17th century dutch still life paintings june 18 2018 pronkstilleven with holbein bowl nautilus cup glass goblet and fruit dish willem kalf rotterdam 1678. On one side the generally somber scenes are read symbolically through the lens of.
Every one has heard of rembrandt vermeer and bosch but there is so much more to dutch painting. The netherlands had only recently become a political entity and was still suffering from the effects of a long and arduous war against spain. Painter of people jan vermeer.
The emergence of the dutch school of painting in the early seventeenth century is one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the history of the visual arts. The tradition of still life painting appears to have started and was far more popular in the contemporary low countries today belgium and netherlands then flemish and dutch artists than it ever was in southern europe. Since then critics have generally belonged to two opposing schools of thought when it comes to interpreting them.
Dutch golden age painting is the painting of the dutch golden age a period in dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century during and after the later part of the eighty years war 15681648 for dutch independence. Just like all other dutch golden age paintings stillevens were known for their close resemblance to reality paintings that fool the eyes. Paintings depicting aspects of the natural world were so characteristic of the netherlands that during the seventeenth century the dutch words stilleven and landschap were adopted into english as still life and landscape before the mid 1600s though the dutch themselves usually referred to pictures by their individual subjects such as.