Allart van EVERDINGEN Painted 1645-75

Pencil Shading

A Saw-mill by a Torrent

Allart van EVERDINGEN Painted 1645-75

Signed, bottom right: a v everdingen Wood (oak),

44.8 x 60.3 cm No. 1701, Presented by

George H. Boughton R.A., 1900.

Everdingen travelled to Scandinavia in 1644

and introduced a new type of landscape into

Dutch painting - rocky, mountainous scenes with

torrents or waterfalls,

based on those he had drawn there.

This example was painted late in his career, in about 1670.

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A Saw-mill by a Torrent

Andrea MANTEGNA

1430/1 - 1506 Italy

Mantegna made this bronze self portrait for his burial chapel.
It emulates great figures of antiquity: a crown of laurel is associated with Caesar and the coronation of poets. He claims that his art elevates him to comparable status.
Mantegna achieved a renown unparalleled by living artists in the 15th century.
It was akin to the fame and status of artists in antiquity,
such as Apelles, about whom Mantegna would have read in Pliny.

Samson and Delilah

Andrea MANTEGNA 1500-6
Inscribed on the tree-trunk with the proverb: foemina / diabolo tribvs / assibvs est / mala peior Linen, 47 x 36.8 cm No. 1145. Purchased, 1883.
This picture is based on the biblical story of Samson and Delilah. It is painted to look like a cameo a miniature relief in the different strata of a precious stone. Such carvings by Roman gem-cutters were admired and collected in Mantegna’s circle.
Vasari praises Mantegna’s ability to foreshorten:‘he showed painters a much better method of foreshortening figures from below upwards, which was truly a difficult and ingenious invention.’ The picture is considered a late work on stylistic grounds

Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian Renaissance artist. A serious student of Roman archaeology and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective as he thought best, e.g., by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence of a fundamentally sculptural approach to painting. He led a workshop that was the leading producer of prints in Italy before 1500.

Samson and Delilah

The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

Composition and Proportion

The composition is rigorously organised.

There is a simple perspective scheme using a single vanishing- point.
The canvas is roughly divided into fifths. The architecture and horizon
are placed in a balanced way within this grid.

This produces a clearly ordered picture, which conveys an
impression of permanence.
Claude brings it to life with much detail and the whole
painting with morning light.

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