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Gerrit van Honthorst
Gerrit van Honthorst , 1590-1656, Dutch portrait, genre, and allegorical painter. In Italy (c.1610-1620) he gained a sound understanding of the works of Caravaggio, which greatly affected his style. He was a master at painting candlelit genre pieces and biblical scenes. Upon his return to Holland, h... Read more
Hendrick Terbrugghen
Hendrick Terbrugghen , 1588-1629, Dutch painter, a leading member of the Utrecht school. He was a pupil of the history painter Bloemaert before living (c.1604-14) in Italy. Crowning of Thorns (1620; Copenhagen) is his first known dated work. Like his contemporaries Honthorst and Baburen, he was la... Read more
de Stijl
de Stijl [Du.,=the style], Dutch nonfigurative art movement, also called neoplasticism. In 1917 a group of artists, architects, and poets was organized under the name de Stijl, and a journal of the same name was initiated. The leaders of the movement were the artists Theo van Doesburg and Piet ... Read more
Dutch art
Dutch art the art of the region that is now the Netherlands. As a distinct national style, this art dates from about the turn of the 17th cent., when the country emerged as a political entity and developed a clearly independent culture. Early History During the Middle Ages, Netherlandish ... Read more
furniture
furniture properly such movables as chairs, tables, and beds; it is extended to include draperies, rugs, mirrors, lamps, and other furnishings. In its gradual evolution from periods of earliest civilization, the history of furniture parallels the progress of culture. Furniture has been made in a gr... Read more

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Gerrit van Honthorst
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Terbrugghen and Baburen he led the influential Utrecht school of painting that introduced Caravaggesque dramatic realism into Dutch art. Honthorst's Winter King of Bohemia is in the Metropolitan Museum. Bibliography: See study by J. R. Judson (1959). Read more
Gherardo delle Notti
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition see Honthorst, Gerrit van . Read more
Art in the Northern Netherlands, 1585 – 1700
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...According to his biographer, Karel van Mander (1548 – 1606) along with...x2013; 1617) and Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem (1562 – 1638) founded...1611) and introduced to the group by Van Mander. Cornelis's monumental Massacre...Salomon and Jan de Bray, and Caesar van Everdingen ... Read more
Jan Vermeer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...rmeer's later works. Christ in the House of Martha and Mary is reminiscent of compositions by Hendrick Terbrugghen and Gerrit van Honthorst, who disseminated the Caravaggesque style in Holland. Diana and Her Companions, Vermeer's only mythological subject... Read more
Vermeer, Jan
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Christ in the House of Martha and Mary is similar to compositions by Hendrick Terbrugghen (1588 – 1629) and Gerrit van Honthorst (1590 – 1656), who spread the Caravaggesque (having to do with the painting style of Italian painter Caravaggio... Read more

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Honthorst, Gerrit van
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists Honthorst, Gerrit van (1592–1656). Dutch painter of biblical, mythological, and genre scenes , and of portraits. He was a pupil of Bloemaert in... Read more
Huygens, Constantijn
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...1648–52; the team of Dutch and Flemish artists involved, overseen by Jacob van Campen , included Salomon de Bray , Caesar van Everdingen , Gerrit van Honthorst , Jacob Jordaens , and Jan Lievens . Some of the individual contributions are... Read more

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The picture of forbearance: Gerrit van Honthorst depicts Christ holding his peace before Caiaphas.(LENT 2006)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 3/31/2006; ; 537 words ; ...SUNDAY OF LENT: Christ before the High Priest, by Gerrit van Honthorst, c. 1617 So often when Jesus talks to his disciples...crucifying, as self-esteem has nothing on which to cling. Gerrit van Honthorst's great picture (great in two senses, as it is very... Read more
Museum accessions.(Florida State University)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 9/1/2006; ; 671 words ; ...originated in Rome by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, which spread through much of Europe in the seventeenth century. Gerrit van Honthorst is credited with bringing the style to the Netherlands, where it was widely admired. In addition to the Volmarijn... Read more