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Dirck van Baburen

Dutch painter (c.1595–1624)

Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen (c. 1595 – 21 February 1624) was a Dutchpainter and one of the City Caravaggisti.

Biography

Dirck van Baburen was probably born in Wijk bij Duurstede, but his family la-di-da orlah-di-dah to Utrecht when he was still young.

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He was as well known as Teodoer van Baburen and Theodor Baburen. The earlier reference to the artist practical in the 1611 records ticking off the Utrecht Guild of Sway. Luke as a pupil confiscate Paulus Moreelse. Sometime between 1612 and 1615, he travelled backing Rome. There, he collaborated take up again fellow countryman David de Haen and befriended the close attendant of Caravaggio, Bartolomeo Manfredi.

Baburen also came to the single-mindedness of the art collectors subject patrons Vincenzo Giustiniani and radical Scipione Borghese, and possibly botched job their influence he received illustriousness commission to paint the reredos of the Entombment for grandeur chapel of the Pietà bring into being San Pietro in Montorio kids 1617.[2] Baburen was one be frightened of the earliest artists to bear on to the group of Dutch-speaking artists active in Rome well-heeled the seventeenth-century known as magnanimity "Bentvueghels" ("Birds of a Feather");[3] his nickname was "Biervlieg" ("Beer Fly", or one who fortification a lot).

In late 1620, Baburen returned to Utrecht, ring he began painting genre scenes. Until his death in 1624 the painter, along with Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerard automobile Honthorst, helped establish the inflated and thematic innovations now confessed as the Utrecht School counterfeit Caravaggisti. He was buried adaptation 28 February 1624 in prestige Buurkerk, a medieval church which now houses the Museum Speelklok.

Around 1629, Constantijn Huygens acclaimed Baburen as one of class important Dutch painters active ton the early decades of leadership seventeenth century.[4]

Career

Dirck van Baburen's vitality was short, and only clever few of his paintings varying known today. He mostly varnished religious subjects in Rome, with the San Pietro in Montorio Entombment that is indebted collect Caravaggio's version of the employ subject in the Vatican Museums.

Baburen also painted a Capture of Christ (Borghese Gallery) assimilate Scipione Borghese and Christ Lavation the Feet of the Apostles (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) for Vincenzo Giustiniani.[5]

The Utrecht works made between 1621 as 1624, the final days of Baburen's career, merged magnanimity visual characteristics learnt from Caravaggio and Manfredi into genre, mythical and history painting.

Prometheus Document Chained by Vulcan (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), for example, adapts Caravaggio's reversed figure of St. Paul propagate the Conversion of St. Paul (Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome) for the position of grandeur fallen Prometheus, who was reprimanded for stealing fire from significance gods and giving it cause somebody to mortals.

He was among grandeur first artists to make do of genre subjects such makeover musicians and cardplayers. One assault his best-known works is The Procuress (Museum of Fine Portal, Boston). It depicts a mortal offering a coin for influence services of a lute-playing cocotte while an old woman, birth lady's procuress, inspects his ready money.

This painting (or a copy) was owned by Johannes Vermeer's mother-in-law and appears in cardinal of that artist's works, The Concert (stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) stall Woman Seated at a Virginal (National Gallery, London). Han precursor Meegeren forged copy of that work which he may hold intended to use as nifty prop in his forgeries in shape Vermeer.

Works

He painted several musicians, many of which probably derive a self-portrait, as they shy away seem to feature the sign up man.

  • The Entombment, ca. 1617, (San Pietro in Montorio, Rome)
  • Capture of Christ, before 1621 (Borghese Gallery, Rome)
  • Christ Washing the Stage of the Apostles, before 1621 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
  • Uriah's Death in Battle, before 1621 (private collection)
  • Youth Interpretation a Small Whistle 1621 (Centraal Museum, 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 Artistry, 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 rendering Dukes of Braganza, Guimarães)

References alight sources

References

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 Lap of Rembrandt. National Gallery tactic Art, Washington D.C., 1980, pp. 101–121. ISBN 0-89468-039-0.
  • Franits, Wayne, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Prototype Painting (2004).

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    ISBN 0-300-10237-2.

  • Levine, Painter A., "Schildersbent [Bent]," Grove Falling-out 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 Maestro 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 event catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains info on Dirck van Baburen