March 2018 – Size Of Art

The biblical story of Judith revolves around her going alone to an enemy camp and single-handedly killing their general, Holofernes […]

Gijsberg Leytens was born in Antwerp in the year 1586. He joined the Guild of Saint Luke as a master […]

Moreelse was born around 1603 in Zundert and died October 1634 during a plague epidemic in his hometown. Like Dirck […]

Even in our present day (where we are used to much more) most of us will still see the erotic […]

A bacchante is a follower of Bacchus, the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, […]

Paulus Potter was born on November 25th, 1625 in the Dutch town of Enkhuizen. He learned to paint from his […]

Van Baburen was probably born in the Dutch city of Wijk bij Duurstede and was just seventeen when he travelled […]

The first question that came to my mind when I saw this painting was “Why is a baker blowing a […]

Brouwer was born in the Flemish city of Oudenaarde (now Belgium). He mainly painted peasants, soldiers and other ‘lower class’ […]

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. —William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (3.1.39-40) It is […]