Dirck van Baburen
Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen (c. 1595 – 21 February 1624) was a
Biography
Dirck van Baburen was probably born in
In late 1620, Baburen returned to Utrecht, where he began painting
Career
Dirck van Baburen's career was short, and only a few of his paintings are known today. He mostly painted religious subjects in Rome, including the San Pietro in Montorio Entombment that is indebted to Caravaggio's
The Utrecht works made between 1621 as 1624, the final years of Baburen's career, merged the visual characteristics learnt from Caravaggio and Manfredi into genre,
He was among the first artists to make use of genre subjects such as musicians and cardplayers. One of his best-known works is
Works
He painted several musicians, many of which probably contain a self-portrait, as they all seem to feature the same man.
- The Entombment, ca. 1617, (San Pietro in Montorio, Rome)
- Capture of Christ, before 1621 (Borghese Gallery, Rome)
- Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles, before 1621 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
- Uriah's Death in Battle, before 1621 (private collection)
- Youth Playing a Small Whistle 1621 (Utrecht)
- The Procuress, 1622 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 50.2721[6])
- A Merry Toper, Burton Constable Hall[7]
- Christ among the Doctors, 1622 (National Gallery of Norway, Oslo)
- Backgammon Players, c. 1622 (Historisches Museum, Bamberg)
- The Lute Player, 1622, (Centraal Museum, Utrecht)
- Loose Company, 1623 (Gemäldegalerie, Mainz)
- Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan, 1623 (see above)
- Crowning with Thorns, 1623 (Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht)
- Crowning with Thorns, 1623 (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri)
- Cimon and Pero (Roman Charity), ca. 1623 (York City Art Gallery)[7]
- Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene, ca. 1623 (Kunsthalle Hamburg)
- Eleusinian Mysteries, (Palace of the Dukes of Braganza, Guimarães)
References and sources
References
- ^ "The_Procuress". Archived from the original on 2003-08-21.
- ^ Brown, p. 110.
- ^ Levine.
- ^ Brown, p. 102.
- ^ Brigstocke.
- ^ "The Procuress". collections.mfa.org. Retrieved 2020-12-17.
- ^ a b 2 artworks by or after Dirck van Baburen at the Art UK site
Sources
- Dirck van Baburen in History of Art
- Brigstocke, Hugh, "Baburen, Dirck (Jaspersz.) van," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, March 15, 2007.
- Brown, Christopher, "The Utrecht Caravaggisti," in Gods, Saints & Heroes: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1980, pp. 101–121. ISBN 0-89468-039-0.
- Franits, Wayne, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting (2004). ISBN 0-300-10237-2.
- Levine, David A., "Schildersbent [Bent]," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [March 15, 2007].
- Murray, P. & L., Dictionary of art and artists. Penguin Books (1996). ISBN 0-14-051300-0
- Nicolson, B., Caravaggism in Europe (2nd edn., 1990). ISBN 88-422-0233-9.
- Slatkes, L. J., Dirck van Baburen: A Dutch Painter in Utrecht and Rome (1965).
- Slive, Seymour, Dutch Painting 1600-1800 (1995) ISBN 0-300-06418-7.
External links
- Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Dirck van Baburen