Show illuminates Dutch painters' rich use of light.(Arts)(Art)

From: The Washington Times | Date: January 11, 1998| Author: Shaw-Eagle, Joanna | Copyright information

BALTIMORE - Hendrick Ter Brugghen's "Saint Sebastian Attended by Saint Irene" shows the early Christian martyr collapsing to the ground, filled with arrows, folding in on himself and into a dramatically swirled diagonal of fabric and limbs.

One of many intensely moving paintings in the Walters Art Gallery exhibit "Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age," it sums up both the message of the 17th-century Dutch Counter-Reformation and the way thes...

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