“Painted in Antwerp around 1620 when the Flemish artist was at the height of his creative powers, Portrait of a Man as Mars blends the genres of portraiture, allegory, and mythology. Rubens depicts the armor-clad figure wearing an all’antica helmet once owned by the artist himself. Imbued with a magnetic virility, the man conveys the…
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Peasant Wedding (1567)
Read More The Peasant Wedding at wikiwand The Peasant Wedding at Google Arts and Culture If, like me, you can’t keep all these Brueghels straight, go to Brueghel Family Tree Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Pieter Brueghel the Younger: The Wedding Procession (1627)
Read More Pieter Brueghel the Younger at wikiwand If, like me, you can’t keep all these Brueghels straight, go to Brueghel Family Tree Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Hugo van der Goes: Death of the Virgin (c1475)
“On the bed lies the pale-white Virgin, clad in a blue cloak. Her hands are folded in her lap. A group of apostles gather in a circular arrangement around the deathbed. This group of saints shows great soulfulness, despair and human fear. At the top, Christ appears in a halo among hovering angels to take…
National Gallery of Art: Highlights from Clouds, Ice, and Bounty
See More Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings, October 17, 2021 – February 27, 2022, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 