#Gerrit van Honthorst

[laclefdescoeurs]

Saint Sebastian, 1623, Gerrit van Honthorst

[lionofchaeronea]

The Happy Violinist, Gerard van Honthorst, ca. 1624

[christliche-kunstwerke]

Christus vor dem Hohenpriester, 1617 von Gerrit van Honthorst (1617, Öl auf Leinwand)

[artandthebible]

Christ Crowned with Thorns

Artist: Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590 - 1656)

Date: About 1620

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Getty Center Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Painting Description

As was customary for promising Dutch painters in the 1600s, Gerrit van Honthorst traveled to Italy to complete his artistic training. In Rome he fell under the spell of Caravaggio's revolutionary style and adopted his use of realistic figures and dramatic lighting, known as chiaroscuro. In Italy he acquired the nickname Gherardo delle Notti (Gerrit of the Nights) because he painted so many night scenes lit by candles or torches.

This recently discovered painting may have been made as an altarpiece. It shows the Crowning with Thorns, one of the last of the series of events comprising the trial of Christ. His crude features illuminated by a torch, a jeering soldier mocks Christ, who humbly accepts the soldier's derision. In the shadows, another soldier places the crown of thorns on Christ's head, using a cane to protect his own hands. At the left, two dimly lit figures, perhaps Pontius Pilate and an advisor, discuss Christ's fate.

Biblical Narrative | John 19: 1-3

So Pilate then took Jesus and had Him flogged. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and placed it on His head, and put a purple cloak on Him; and they repeatedly came up to Him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapped Him in the face again and again.

[justineportraits]

Gerrit van Honthorst Satyr and Nymph 1623

[artsof]

The Violin Player | Gerrit van Honthorst | 1626 | Mauritshuis

"The Utrecht painter Van Honthorst lived for a while in Rome, where he was influenced by the work of Caravaggio. He caused a sensation with his night paintings, which gave him the nickname ‘Gherardo delle Notti’, Gerrit of the Nights. But he also made cheerful figure paintings, such as this enticing young woman.

Van Honthorst was one of the Utrecht Caravaggists, and his modern, dramatic style had a great influence on Dutch painting. When he became court painter to stadholder Frederik Hendrik, his style became gradually daintier."

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A Merry Violinist Holding a Roemer Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch; 1592–1656) ca. 1624 Oil on canvas Sotheby’s, New York

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Double Portrait of Frederik Hendrik (1584- 1647) and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602- 1675)

Artist: Gerard van Honthorst (Dutch, 1592–1656)

Date: c.1637-1638

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

Depicted People:

Frederick Henry of Orange-Nassau 

Amalia of Solms-Braunfels

Description

This portrait of Stadholder Frederik Hendrik and Amalia of Solms was painted by their court painter, Gerrit van Honthorst. It is clearly an official state portrait: the couple are depicted in all their finery, life-size and full length. It was made to mark Frederik Hendrik’s recapture of Breda in 1637.

Van Honthorst painted the portrait for the Grote Zaal (Large Hall) at Huis ter Nieuburg, one of the stadholder’s residences near Rijswijk, but the painting was later lost. The painting here is a copy made by Van Honthorst for Constantijn Huygens, Frederik Hendrik’s secretary. It originally hung in Huygens’s home on the Plein, opposite the Mauritshuis.

[brokenbluebouquet]

8/xx Gerrit van Honthorst, the Duke of Buckingham and his family, 1628, royal collections trust.

George and Kate had 4 children:

Mary Villiers (1622-1685) married 1st Lord Herbert, no children. Married 2nd James Stuart Duke of Richmond and Lennox - 2 children.

Charles Villiers (1625-1627) earl of Coventry. Died in infancy.

George Villiers (1627-1687) 2nd Duke of Buckingham married Mary Fairfax (Thomas fairfax’s daughter), no children.

Francis Viliers (1628/9 - 1648) killed in a skirmish at Kingston. Unmarried, no children.

Officially* there are no living direct descendants of George and Kate alive today. All members of the Villiers family are via George’s brothers and half brothers. The Fielding earls of Denbigh are the descendants of George’s sister Susan.

* of course given the antics of George and George Jr who knows what flotsam and jetsam is hanging around the gene pool.

[raskti]

De Profundis, Oscar Wilde (1897 [1905]) / Narcissus, Caravaggio (1597- 99) / Narcissus, Helen Thornycroft (1876) / Echo and Narcissus, William Waterhouse (1903) / Divine Looser, Clem Turner (2021) / The fall of Icarus, Jacob Peter Gowy (1635- 37) / Saint Sebastian, Gerrit van Honthorst (ca 1623) / Humanitad, Oscar Wilde (ca 1890)

[laclefdescoeurs]

A merry violinist holding a roemer, Gerrit van Honthorst

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Gerrit van Honthorst, The Concert, 1623, oil/canvas (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)

[christliche-kunstwerke]

Adoration of the Shepherds, 1617 by Gerrit van Honthorst

(1617, Öl auf Leinwand)

[katebvsh]

“St Sebastian” by Gerrit van Honthorst

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[zawissius]

Stary zwyczaj w tym mają chrześcijańskie domy, Na Boże Narodzenie po izbie słać słomy, Że w stajni Święta Panna leżała połogiem. Niejedenże dziś, izbę usławszy barłogiem, Gnojem na przyście Pańskie zapaskudzi serce, Gdzieby się szczerozłote szklnić miały kobierce. Zaniechajcie dla Boga, radzę tego stroju: Droższa cnota od szpaler, brzydszy grzech od gnoju. Dość słomy w Betleemie, dość było barłogu, Cnotą domy i serca ozdabiajcie Bogu.

- Wacław Potocki