#dutch renaissance art

[galleryofart]

Laughing Fool

Artist: Possibly Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen (Netherlandish, 1477–1533)

Genre: Genre Art

Date: c. 1500

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States

"Laughing Fool" is a painting by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, a Dutch Renaissance artist who was active in the early 16th century. The painting depicts a jester or fool, dressed in brightly colored clothing and a hat with bells, who is laughing and playing a musical instrument. The fool is often interpreted as a symbol of the transience of life and the ultimate futility of worldly pursuits. The figure's laughter is often seen as a reminder of the thin line between happiness and sadness, and the fleeting nature of human joy and pleasure. The painting is a fine example of the Northern Renaissance style, characterized by its use of bright, vivid colors and its attention to detail and realism. "Laughing Fool" is considered to be one of Van Oostsanen's most important works, and is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Dutch Renaissance art.

[illustratus]

The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

[kabukiaku]

The Plague Doctor's Visit.

[eirene]

Portrait of a Woman, possibly Anne Codde, 1529

Maarten Van Heemskerck

[classic-art-favourites]

Ascent of the Blessed by Hieronymus Bosch, 1505-1515.

[hrleyquinn]

details from Garden of Earthly Delights (1503-1515) by Hieronymus Bosch

[theaskew]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch-Flemish c. 1525–1530-1569), Hunters in the Snow (Winter), 1565. Oak wood, Overall: 116,5 cm × 162 cm × 2,4 cm Framed: 134 cm × 180 cm × 11 cm. (Source: Kunst Historisches Museum Wein, Vienna)

[artsandculture]

The Hunters in the Snow (1565) 🎨 Pieter Bruegel the Elder 🏛️ Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien 📍 Vienna, Austria

In the late 16th century, the Antwerp banker Niclaes Jongelinck owned one of the most important painting collections in the Netherlands. He commissioned Bruegel to create a series of six seasonal paintings, the last of which is shown here. The series also included: Gloomy Day (Early Spring; KHM, GG 1837), Spring (now lost); Hay-Harvest (Early Summer; Nelahozeves Castle, Czech Republic, Lobkowitz Collection); The Harvesters (Late Summer; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art); Return of the Herd (Autumn; KHM, GG 1018). For the composition of this series, Bruegel, who today is regarded as the most progressive landscape painter of the 16th century, followed an older tradition that divided the year, beginning on 1 March, into six unequally long seasons. What all the compositions have in common is the so-called balcony motif, i.e., the depiction of a hill in the foreground from which an overall view of the landscape unfolds. On top of the hill a group of hunters accompanied by a pack of dogs is seen, making their way back to the village below. Their catch is poor: a single fox dangling from the spear the hunter on the left carries on his shoulder. To the hunter’s left, Bruegel added a motif that had been used forquire some time in book illumination for depicting the month of December: the preparations for singeing a pig over an open fire outside a building. The damaged sign hanging above them reveals the name of the inn: “dit is inden Hert”, meaning “To the Deer” – a well-aimed passing shot. Entertaining details, such as the people ice-skating on the frozen lakes, have contributed to the painting’s enormous popularity. However, it does not owe its significance in art history to its details but rather to the overall impression conveyed by the coloration and composition. With virtuosity and consistency Bruegel evokes the impression of cold: white, blue-green and brown are the dominant colours. The precise silhouette of the trees, the frozen mill-wheel at the lower right and the icy surface of the snow revealed by the hunters’ footprints blend together to convey the fundamental characteristics of winter. The scene is an invented, universally formulated landscape: the combination of a chain of Alpine mountains with Flemish architecture renders pointless any search for reality.

[tilbageidanmark]

Albrecht Dürer, Peasant Couple Dancing, 1514

[victoriaswillow]

Wolf in a Rocky Landscape by Frans Snyder (1650)

[zappedbyzabka]

This is art.

[bast38]

Self-Portrait (detail) by Joos van Cleve, c. 1519.

[primalpoetry]

"Adoration of the Magi" (1599)

Maerten de Vos

[gouldblogger]

Ari Vatanen and the Peugeot 205 T16 in action, 1985 Monte-Carlo Rally // Hunters in the Snow, oil on panel by PIETER BRUEGEL the ELDER, 1565

[barahari]

The Angel Taking Leave of Tobit and His Family- Jan Victors (The Getty Center)

[zoeandsubaloveart]

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch, 1525-1569)