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”. […]
Art in detail
Art in detail
In his book Understanding Media: The Extension of Man (1964), Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The medium is the message”. […]
Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634) was born in Amsterdam, but lived in Kampen (a Duch city that was part of the by-then […]
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 […]
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’ […]
We have seen work of her before and this is another great example of her skills as a still life […]