Uno Sole Minor

Salon: "Either to please or to educate." Open your mind and your vision, please make your way in the 17th Century.

[designobjectory]

A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD TORCHERES

Listed in the October 1786 inventory at the Grand Salon of Château d’Hauteville. F. Grand d’Hauteville, Le Château d’Hauteville, Lausanne, 1932, pp. 70, 127-129 (in situ).

[rijksmuseum-art]

Democritus, 1628, Museum of the Netherlands

The Greek philosophers Democritus and Heraclitus were considered to be polar opposites. In contrast to the old, melancholy Heraclitus (the nearby pendant), Democritus appears as a young, laughing hedonist. He points to the distance, as though that is where the folly of mankind is found. Together, the pair of paintings conveys a moralizing message: whether you laugh or cry, the world remains incurably foolish.

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8087

[history-of-fashion]

1617 Everard Quirijnsz. van der Maes - Willem Jansz. Cock, standard bearer of the Oranje Vendel of the Hague militia

(The Hague’s Historic Museum)

[humanoidhistory]

Astronomer by Candlelight, painted by Gerrit Dou, Netherlands, late 1650s.

(Getty Museum)

[geritsel]

Gerrit Dou - The Dentist by Candlelight

[geritsel]

Gerard Dou - De Piskijker (The Pee Watcher)

[history-of-fashion]

1677 Matthijs Naiveu - Headmen of the Turfdragersgilde in Leiden

(Museum De Lakenhal)

[speciesbarocus]

Johannes Hevelius - Machina coelestis pars posterior (1679). [x]

> Engraving by A. Boy. Details

[history-of-fashion]

ab. 1695 Matthijs Naiveu - Interior with an elegant lady receiving a suitor

(Private collection via Sotheby’s)

[magictransistor]

Johannes Hevelius, Selenographia, sive Lunae descriptio (Selenography, or A Description of The Moon), 1647.

[gardenofsappho]

Giovanna Garzoni, natura morta con popone su ub piatto, uva e una chiocciola, 1642-51 ca.

[cimmerianweathers]

Basket of Flowers on a Marble Ledge, Dirck de Bray, 1665. Oil on canvas.

[pintoras]

Giovanna Garzoni (Italian, 1600 - 1670): Still Life with Birds and Fruit (c. 1650) (via The Cleveland Museum of Art)

[thegetty]

Still Life with Bowl of Citrons (details), late 1640s, Giovanna Garzoni. The J. Paul Getty Museum

[hadrian6]

Peach with Walnut and a Fly. 17th.century. Giovanna Garzoni. Italian 1600-1670. watercolor.       http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

[flyse]

Dirck de Bray, Flowers in a Glass Vase, 1671

[desaparecidos]

Still Life with Dead Hare and Falcon in a Niche (1678) Dirck de Bray