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Cupid and Psyche is an oil on canvas painting by Anthony van Dyck. It is now in the British Royal Collection and shown in Kensington Palace. [1] One of the last works in van Dyck's oeuvre, it shows a marked influence of Titian and dates from his time as a court artist to Charles I of England. It is his sole surviving mythological painting from ...
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born in Delft, Dutch Republic, on 24 October 1632. On 4 November, he was baptized as Thonis. His father, Philips Antonisz van Leeuwenhoek, was a basket maker who died when Antonie was only five years old. His mother, Margaretha (Bel van den Berch), came from a well-to-do brewer's family.
Sir Anthony van Dyck ( Dutch: Antoon van Dyck [ˈɑntoːɱ vɑn ˈdɛik]; [a] 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) [3] was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy . The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy silk merchant in Antwerp, Anthony painted from an ...
In 1635 Van Dyck had painted a portrait of the same three children, which was intended to be sent to the Queen's sister Christina, in exchange for portraits of the Duchess's children. However, the King was angry with Van Dyck for showing Prince Charles wearing skirts, worn only by younger children, so the artist painted a second group portrait ...
Portrait of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio (c. 1623) by Anton van Dyck. Portrait of Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio is an oil on canvas painting of Guido Bentivoglio by Anthony van Dyck, now in the Galleria Palatina in Florence. [1] It was painted around 1623 during the artist's stay in Italy - Bentivoglio had links to the artist's native Flanders.
Gijsbert van Herk, Elsa van Dien. Antonie “Anton” Pannekoek ( Dutch: [ɑntɔn pɑnnəkuk]; 2 January 1873 – 28 April 1960) was a Dutch astronomer, philosopher, Marxist theorist, and socialist revolutionary. He was one of the main theorists of council communism ( Dutch: radencommunisme ).
The painting was produced in 1635 and measures 119 by 127 centimetres (47 in × 50 in). It is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. [1] It is van Dyck's only self-portrait to include another figure, showing Porter's importance in his life. The pair had first met in 1620, during van Dyck's first stay in London.
Jupiter and Antiope is a series of two similar oil-on-canvas paintings by the late Baroque Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, from c. 1620. One painting is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent; the other in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne. See also. List of paintings by Anthony van Dyck; References