Dose of Art #204 Judith Leyster – A Boy and a Girl with a Cat and an Eel (1635)
In his book Understanding Media: The Extension of Man (1964), Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The medium is the message”. […]
17th century
Dose of Art #201: Hendrick Avercamp – Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters (c. 1608)
Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) was born in Amsterdam, but lived in Kampen (a Duch city that was part of the by-then […]
Dose of Art #199: Gijsbrecht Leytens – A winter landscape (c. first quarter 17th century)
Gijsberg Leytens was born in Antwerp in the year 1586. He joined the Guild of Saint Luke as a master […]
Dose of Art #198: Johannes Moreelse – Democritus (c. 1630)
Moreelse was born around 1603 in Zundert and died October 1634 during a plague epidemic in his hometown. Like Dirck […]
Dose of Art #196: Hendrick ter Brugghen – Bacchante with an Ape (1627)
A bacchante is a follower of Bacchus, the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness, fertility, […]
Dose of Art #195: Paulus Potter – Two Pigs in a Sty (1649)
Paulus Potter was born on November 25th, 1625 in the Dutch town of Enkhuizen. He learned to paint from his […]
Dose of Art #194: Dirck van Baburen – Young Man Singing (1622)
Van Baburen was probably born in the Dutch city of Wijk bij Duurstede and was just seventeen when he travelled […]
Dose of Art #193: Gabriël Metsu – Baker Blowing his Horn (c. 1660)
The first question that came to my mind when I saw this painting was “Why is a baker blowing a […]
Dose of Art #192: Adriaen Brouwer – The Bitter Potion (c. 1636–1638)
Brouwer was born in the Flemish city of Oudenaarde (now Belgium). He mainly painted peasants, soldiers and other ‘lower class’ […]
Dose of Art #189: Clara Peeters – Still Life with Nuts, Candy and Flowers (c. 1611)
We have seen work of her before and this is another great example of her skills as a still life […]