BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder
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Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1525-1569 |
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le Paysage avec la Chute d~Icarus new4/BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder-856868.jpg ID de tableau:: 30513
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mk68 Pétrolesur le bois, transféré au canevas 29x44 Bruxelles, les Musées Royaux de beaux-arts 1567-1568 |
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus new23/unknow artist-898669.jpg ID de tableau:: 69075
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Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 133 x 206 mm
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Hans Bol
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(1534 - 1593), Flemish artist, received his early training from his two uncles who were also painters. He then was the apprentice to a Mechelen watercolorist and tempera painter at the age of fourteen. Because Boles watercolors became so widely reproduced, he began creating miniatures on parchment. The technique earned him many international clients and a good income. In addition, Bol also produced several oil paintings, illuminated manuscripts, drawings, and engravings. He preferred to create landscapes, mythological, allegorical and biblical scenes, and genre paintings.
Bol was a mannerist, which followed the High Renaissance.
One of his most famous works of art is Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, made with watercolours on paper. It was inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which the ancient myth of Icarus is told. The painting is a marvelous example of the art of landscape. Subtle colour transitions, skilful perspective and effective contrasts between foreground and background, and human figures and the forces of nature, lend this miniature painting a cosmic dimension.
Bol chose the Icarus theme on several occasions. It was also subject of one of his paintings, which described in detail and highly praised by Karel van Mander in the 17th century. Although Bol was once an important and admired painter, we only know him through his small drawings and watercolours. Most of his paintings appear to have been lost. This miniature is all the more important, because it probably produces the painting referret to by Van Mander, which may have been his masterpiece. Consequently, Bol ought to be viewed not only as a superior miniature painter, but above all as an important artist who played a key role in the development of landscape art.
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus new23/Hans Bol-634898.jpg ID de tableau:: 70628
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133 x 206 mm
16th century
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Hans Bol
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(1534 - 1593), Flemish artist, received his early training from his two uncles who were also painters. He then was the apprentice to a Mechelen watercolorist and tempera painter at the age of fourteen. Because Boles watercolors became so widely reproduced, he began creating miniatures on parchment. The technique earned him many international clients and a good income. In addition, Bol also produced several oil paintings, illuminated manuscripts, drawings, and engravings. He preferred to create landscapes, mythological, allegorical and biblical scenes, and genre paintings.
Bol was a mannerist, which followed the High Renaissance.
One of his most famous works of art is Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, made with watercolours on paper. It was inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, in which the ancient myth of Icarus is told. The painting is a marvelous example of the art of landscape. Subtle colour transitions, skilful perspective and effective contrasts between foreground and background, and human figures and the forces of nature, lend this miniature painting a cosmic dimension.
Bol chose the Icarus theme on several occasions. It was also subject of one of his paintings, which described in detail and highly praised by Karel van Mander in the 17th century. Although Bol was once an important and admired painter, we only know him through his small drawings and watercolours. Most of his paintings appear to have been lost. This miniature is all the more important, because it probably produces the painting referret to by Van Mander, which may have been his masterpiece. Consequently, Bol ought to be viewed not only as a superior miniature painter, but above all as an important artist who played a key role in the development of landscape art.
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus new24/Hans Bol-347478.jpg ID de tableau:: 72555
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16th century
Watercolour on paper
133 x 206 mm
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BOL, Hans
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Flemish Northern Renaissance Painter, 1534-1593 |
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus new24/BOL, Hans-583777.jpg ID de tableau:: 74317
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Date 16th century
Medium Watercolour on paper
Dimensions 133 x 206 mm
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