ART

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
The Church
In Auvers-sur-Oise,
View of the Chevet
1890

Between his arrival in Auvers-sur-Oise on 21 May 1890 and death on 29 July, Van Gogh painted some seventy pictures. There is only one painting of the gothic church in the village, Van Gogh opted for a low - angle view of the chevet. The ustabil lines and brushstrokes accentuate the impression that the scene is distorted. The use of light in the scene is contradictory. The foreground is brightly lit, but the church is silhouetted against a cobalt blue back ground suggesting a stormy sky or night time.

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📷 John Jensen

Ambrosius Bosscharts the elder.
(1573 - 1621 Dutch)

Bouquet of Flowers in a Stone niche. 1618

Exotix flowers, conch shells, and seashells from the depths of the ocean testify to the trade in goods from the colonies. The increasing affluence of the Dutch merchant class helped create the basis for a range of new mundane, rather than religious, motifs introduced on the Dutch art market in the 17th century. Boss chaerts was among the first artists to treat flowers as a distinkt theme within the still genre.
He founded a dynasty of painters who continued his style of floral and fruit painting and turned Middelburg into the leading centre for flower painting in the Dutch Republic.
In the 17th century still lifes were often assoiated with moralising undertones. For example, the multicoloured tulip - the bulbs of which were highly expencive investment objects - was a favourite memento mori; a reminder of the brevity of life.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

The Virgin and the child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist (The Burlington House Cartoon). About 1499 - 1500

The Virgin Mary sits on the lap of her mother, Saint Anne. The Christ child bless his cousin Saint John the Baptist (the child to the right).
This large drawing is a cartoon, that is, a life-size preparatory study for a painting. In order to transfer a design onto a panel, the outlines of cartoons were usually pricked or incised. This complex and atmospheric drawing remains intact. It must have been preserved in its own right as a finished drawings, although some areas have deliberately been left inconclusive or in rough outline.

Leonardo left Milan in 1499, shortly after french troops invaded the city, and returned to Florence. The Burlington House cartoon dates to this turbulent period. Leonardo is known to have made several life-size works on paper (often called cartoons), but this is the only such drawing to survive.

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