Baburen dirck van biography of christopher

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Baburen dirck van biography of christopher

Email address. Remember me uncheck on a public computer. First name. Dating from this period is The Procuress Boston, Museum of Art , a modern version in a Caravaggesque mode of an old, moralizing subject. Van Baburen was also one of the first painters to execute a painted version of the popular theme of Granida and Daifilo, based on the famous play Granida by Pieter Cornelisz.

The moralising content of some of his compositions, such as The Procuress and The Backgammon Players New York, private collection , paved the way for the subsequent development of genre painting with a moralising undertone. Visit Collection Exhibitions Activities Education. Print page. He mostly painted religious subjects in Rome, including the San Pietro in Montorio Entombment that is indebted to Caravaggio's version of the same subject in the Vatican Museums.

The Utrecht works made between as , the final years of Baburen's career, merged the visual characteristics learnt from Caravaggio and Manfredi into genre, mythological and history painting. Paul from the Conversion of St. Paul Santa Maria del Popolo , Rome for the position of the fallen Prometheus , who was punished for stealing fire from the gods and giving it to mortals.

He was among the first artists to make use of genre subjects such as musicians and cardplayers. It depicts a man offering a coin for the services of a lute -playing prostitute while an old woman, the lady's procuress, inspects his money. Han van Meegeren forged copy of this work which he may have intended to use as a prop in his forgeries of Vermeer.

He painted several musicians, many of which probably contain a self-portrait, as they all seem to feature the same man. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects.