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Madonna And Child (van Dyck)
''Madonna and Child'' is a 1621–1627 painting by Anthony van Dyck, now in the Galleria nazionale di Parma. Description ''Madonna and Child'', representing "the blessed Virgin holding the sleeping Baby Jesus in her lap," is part of a series of Madonna paintings by Anthony van Dyck. The series was made during his Italian period between 1621 and 1625 according to this ''Notebook of Italian Drawings''. The works in this series are mostly three-quarters portraits conducted in a Titianesque style in their iconography and use of color. Larsen, 1980 p. 112 and Larsen 1988 p. 177. The elegant gestures and dynamic movement of the elongated figure of Marie contrasts with her very human attachment to the Baby Jesus. In a deep sleep, he still holds the hand of his mother. ''Madonna and Child'' is often compared to other works in Van Dyck's Palermo period, like the ''Madonna col Bambino di Palermo'' at the Galleria Nazional di Sicilia and the ''Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Van Dyck
Sir Anthony van Dyck (, many variant spellings; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Brabantian Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Southern Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy Antwerp silk merchant, Anthony painted from an early age. He was successful as an independent painter in his late teens, and became a master in the Antwerp guild in 1618. By this time he was working in the studio of the leading northern painter of the day, Peter Paul Rubens, who became a major influence on his work. Van Dyck worked in London for some months in 1621, then returned to Flanders for a brief time, before travelling to Italy, where he stayed until 1627, mostly in Genoa. In the late 1620s he completed his greatly admired ''Iconography'' series of portrait etchings, mostly of other artists. He spent five years in Flanders after his return from Italy, and from 1630 was court painter for the arch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
