Adoration of the Three Wise Men

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Adoration Of The Three Wise Men

SOLD ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 17° secolo -1600 Caudroit Troyes Style: Rinascimento, Luigi XIII +33662098900

Length:136cm Width:117cm Material:olio su tela Price:8800€

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"Adoration Of The Magi - Seventeenth Century Flanders Attributed To Jan Boeckhorst (Munster 1605-1668)" Great Adoration Of The Three Magi - Flanders Seventeenth Century Attributed To A Worker Of PP. Rubens: Jan Boeckhorst (Munster 1605-Antwerp 1668). It represents the adoration of the three wise men who bring the three gifts (gold, incense and myrrh) to the child Jesus. In the iconographic tradition Gaspard, with Asian features, offers incense, Melchior, represented as a white bearded old man, gold, and Balthazar, with black skin, myrrh. This painting is in a beautiful original state. The colors remained very fresh. Oil on canvas of 117cm by 92 cm Frame of 136 cm by 112 cm Jan Boeckhorst (Munster 1605-Antwerp 1668). He was a collaborator of Pierre Paul Rubens. Boeckhorst rarely took the trouble to sign or date his works, so many of them were attributed to Rubens or Antoine Van Dyck, of which he was a friend. Meanwhile, the history of art has recognized the authorship of many works, by comparison of styles or based on archival pieces. With his representations of saints, he put himself at the service of the Counter-Reformation. Although he was born in Germany, one counts Boeckhorst among the painters of the Flemish School. Painting in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the second half of the sixteenth century, painting took a new growth especially because of the expansion of the art market to the bourgeois classes. Until then, the sponsors of the painters were either religious institutions or aristocratic courts. The painters were often attached to them: monks belonging to the monastic orders from which emanated the order, or artists / craftsmen hired as "valets" by the princes, and thus forming part of their domesticity, for a given time. The second part of the so-called Mannerist period corresponds to this explosion of the painting market. The professions of painter and draftsman / engraver are growing: they often have independent workshops, and there is a considerable increase in the numbers of different urban guilds, particularly in Italian cities and those in Flanders and the Netherlands. Low, who profit from the wealth related to maritime trade. If the cleverest painters, or the most fortunate, traveled to train with internationally renowned masters, especially those of Venice and Rome, most of the others never left their home region, and worked a lot from

1 / 4 anticSwiss 26/09/2021 14:26:26 http://www.anticswiss.com engravings. For it must be realized that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the free copy or adaptation of important works created for princes was a common and legitimate practice. The most famous painters were also the first to produce dozens of replicas or adaptations of their great works; they often delegated them to their workshop. One of the most popular subjects in this period, for family devotional paintings, was the nativity; and the adorations of the three wise men, perhaps because this tale was dreaming ... https://www.anticswiss.com/en/fine-art-antiques/adoration-of-the-three-wise-men-9301

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