#dutch and flemish baroque painting

[artthatremindsmeofhannibalnbc]

Gerard van Honthorst, Saint Sebastian, 1623 Oil on canvas

[die-rosastrasse]

Willem van Aelst

Dutch, 1627-1683

Still Life With Flowers, ca. 1656 (details)

[oncanvas]

A Bouquet of Flowers, Clara Peeters, circa 1612

Oil on wood 18 ⅛ x 12 ⅝ in. (46 x 32 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA

[thepaintedroom]

Gonzales Coques (Flemish, 1614–1684) and Dirck van Delen (Dutch, c.1604/1605–1671) • Interior with Figures in a Picture Gallery • From 1667 until 1672 and 1706

[burntcanele]

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)

[classic-art-favourites]

Palace Architecture with Elegant Figures and a Fountain by Dirck de Quade van Ravesteyn, Hans Vredeman de Vries and Paul Vredeman de Vries, 1596.

[diemelusine]

Portrait of Simon Marten Dircsz (1565) by Pieter Aertsen. National Gallery (Athens)

[resplendentoutfit]

The extravagant, outrageous, and often humorous outfits worn by subjects of old portraits.

Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641) • James Stuart, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lenox • 1633

The duke is sporting the latest in hairstyles - the lovelock. Also called a Bourbon lock, French lock, or heart breaker. He must've missed the scathing indicment below.

“Although considered quite fashionable, many people detested lovelocks, considering them unnecessary and extravagant. In 1628 a sixty-three page book denouncing lovelocks was published. The author, William Prynne, railed against the wearing of lovelocks as “Unlovely, Sinfull, Unlawfull, Fantastique, Disolute, Singular, Incendiary, Ruffianly, Graceless, Whorish, Ungodly, Horred [Horrid], Strange, Outlandish, Impudent, Pernicious, Offensive, Ridiculous, Foolish, Childish, Unchristian, Hatefull, Exorbitant, Contemptible, Sloathfull, Unmanly, Depraving, Vaine, and Unseemly,” according to Richard Corson in Fashions in Hair.”

Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-1641) • Henri II de Lorraine • 1634 • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Sorry, girls and boys, this gent is spoken for. Henri is wearing ribbons in his lovelock, which symbolizes a token from a romantic interest. He didn't read the memo, either.

[lionofchaeronea]

A Village on Fire, unknown Flemish or Dutch artist, 17th century

[tilbageidanmark]

Pieter Huys (1519-1584) - The bagpiper and the old woman

[somethingwithmoles]

Pieter Claesz, Still life with nautilus cup and musk apple on golden chain, 1636, oil (?) on panel, 47 x 61 cm, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur (Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History), Münster

Source: Wikimedia Commons

[artthatremindsmeofhannibalnbc]

Peter Paul Rubens, St. Sebastian, 1614 Oil on canvas

[swagmastafromdondcasta]

Road on the Dyke, Hobbema - Milkmaids with Cattle in Landscape, Rubens

"Let us define Dutch art by contrasting it with Flemish art. The flat meadows round antwerp present in themselves no other scene than the Dutch pastures to which native artists have given the expression of the most widespread tranquillity. But when Rubens handles these themes, the subject looks totally different: the earth rolls in vigorous waves, tree-trunks writhe passionately upwards, and their foliage is handled so completely in closed masses that Ruysdael and Hobbema in comparison appear as equally delicate silhouettists. Dutch subtlety beside Flemish massiveness.

In comparison with Hobbema the energy of movement in Rubens' design, Dutch design in general is restful, whether it be the rise of a hill or the curve of a petal. No Dutch tree-trunk has the dramatic force of the Flemish movement, and even Ruysdael’s mighty oaks look slender beside Rubens' trees. Rubens raises the horizon high and makes the picture heavy, the Dutch relation of sky and earth is radically different: the horizon lies low, and it even happens that four-fifths of the picture is given up to air.”

Heinrich Wolfflin, 1984, Principals of Art History

[oncanvas]

Genoese Noblewoman, Anthony van Dyck, circa 1625-27

Oil on canvas 90 ⅞ x 61 ⅝ in. (230.8 x 156.5 cm) The Frick Collection, New York City, NY, USA

[mebwalker]

The Golden Age of Dutch painting: a Prelude

Portrait of Susanna Lunden (née Fourment) or Le Chapeau de Paille, by Peter Paul Rubens (The National Gallery, London) Suzanne Fourment Lunden, portrayed above, was Baroque Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens‘s sister-in-law. In 1630, four years after Rubens’s first wife, Isabella Bran(d)t, died of the plague, fifty-three-year-old Rubens married sixteen-year-old Hélène Fourment. His first marriage…

[latalpavolante]

Baroque Winter Landscapes - The Sims 4 Loading Screens

Much to my surprise I noticed it's December again and so I went looking for some winter-themed loading screens, but couldn't find any in the style and with the mood I had in mind. So, thanks to this great and very helpful Sims 4 Studio tutorial by sigma1202, I could create some myself!

This pack includes six baroque landscape paintings of Dutch and Flemish painters of the 17th (and late 16th) century. So you get some beautiful winter sceneries, snow-covered houses, lots of people ice-skating and many more details to discover while you're waiting for your game to load (which, as we know, can take its time...). Plus, I feel the atmosphere somehow perfectly fits the time before Christmas.

Download here (Google Drive, free)

You can download them seperately or all together in a zip.file. Please make sure to only place ONE loading screen in your mods folder at a time!

Please let me know if you encounter any issues!

You can find details about the paintings I used under the cut:

So downwards and always from left to right, we've got:

01 - Lukas van Valckenborch, View of Antwerp with Frozen Schelde, 1593, Städel-Museum Frankfurt am Main

02 - Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne, Winter, 1614, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

03 - Christoffel van den Berghe, A Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters and an Imaginary Castle, ca. 1615-20, Met Museum New York

04 - Jan Brueghel the Younger (attributed), Snowy Landscape, after 1625, Museo del Prado Madrid

05 - Aert van der Neer, Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters at Sunset, 1655/60, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

06 - Aert van der Neer, Sports on a Frozen River, ca. 1660, Met Museum New York

The links lead to the paintings in the respective museum's online collection, in case you want to know more details or take a closer look at them without a rotating plumbob in the way 😅