#flemish artists

[diana-andraste]

Love Magic, The Cologne Master, 1470-1480

Oil on wood

[thefugitivesaint]

Cornelis Floris (II) (1514-1575), 'Frieze with Animals and Stream God', 1557 Source

[kecobe]

The Sense of Smell Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish; 1577–1640) and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish; 1568–1625) 1617–18 Oil on panel Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

[categorysixkaiju]

The Origin of the Cornucopia, ca. 1619, Abraham Janssens, Flemish, Antwerp, ca. 1575-1632, oil on canvas, 43 3/4 x 68 1/16 in.

[wetreesinart]

Cornelis van Dalem (Flemish, 1530/35–1573 or 1576), Landscape with Farm, 1564, oil on panel, 103.2 x 127.7 cm, Munich, Alte Pinakothek

[paintingsexplained]

Pieter de Hooch, A Woman preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy, c. 1660, 68 x 53 cm, Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, digital image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program

The light that comes in from the background, the spatial geometry, and the range of colors are characteristic of the artist. In the foreground there is a woman preparing bread and butter for a child, presumably her son. He seems to be the praying. Behind the door is a building with a sign that says "Schole" or school, that must be where the boy is preparing to go. Between the room in the foreground and the street outside is another room where we can see the silhouette of a man, presumably the father. This painting is like a diagram of what life should be like in the minds of 17th century Dutchmen. It expresses an ideal of domestic life, based on maternal care, which will prepare the child for his future in the outside world.

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Paul Bril (1554-1626) “View of a Port” (1607) Baroque

[diana-andraste]

Death, The Fourth Horseman. Detail from the Apocalypse Tapestry, Jean Bondol, 1377-1382