Category: History - European
On the 25th of October, 1555, Charles V abdicated the imperial crown, ceding Spain and the Netherlands to his favorite son, Philip II. The event proved to be the prologue of a drama, which in its immediate aspects involved the decay of Spain and the growth of Holland, but in i...
It is surely no accident that the name of Rembrandt is familiar to thousands who know little or nothing of his art. It has, in fact, become so embedded in the mental consciousne...
12. CHAPTER XIIThere is a tendency to identify Jacob van Ruisdael too exclusively with his pictures of mountainous scenery and rocky waterfalls; hence to speak of him as a romantic painter. Bu...
8. CHAPTER VIIITerborch is the aristocrat among Dutch painters, Rembrandt excepted. But Rembrandt’s is an aristocracy of genius, while Terborch’s is an aristocracy of talent and temperament. H...
4. CHAPTER IVThe readiest way to study the art of Holland in the seventeenth century is under the separate heads of portraiture, landscape, marine, genre, and still-life. In this way one obt...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe tendency toward genre painting began before the separation of the Holland Free State from the Spanish Netherlands. Pieter Brueghel the Elder, who died in Brussels in 1570, i...
9. CHAPTER IXTo the Dutch method of treating Biblical subjects we have already alluded in the case of Rembrandt and Jan Steen. It shows in common the motive of translating the story into the...
10. CHAPTER XIn the Berlin Gallery are two small examples of _Holland Landscape with the Hamlet of Rhenen_. They are by Hercules Seghers, whom Bode points to as the father of seventeenth-cen...
2. CHAPTER IIThe forty-five years, following the abdication of Charles V, yielded no indication of the harvest of painting that was to signalize the succeeding century. The earlier half of t...
1. CHAPTER IOn the 25th of October, 1555, Charles V abdicated the imperial crown, ceding Spain and the Netherlands to his favorite son, Philip II. The event proved to be the prologue of a d...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe breathing-time given by the truce allowed play for dissensions among parties and for the ambitions that had crept into the house of Orange. Meanwhile it favored the developm...
6. CHAPTER VIBoth Hals and Rembrandt, each in his different way, have influenced the art of modern times much in the same way in which they influenced their contemporaries. Hals was and stil...
11. CHAPTER XIThe greatest name in Holland landscape, second only to Rembrandt, as many believe, in Dutch art, is Jacob van Ruisdael. Of the comparative merits of the other two leaders of Dut...