#1600s art
The Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577–1640 Antwerp), 1610-20
Oil on panel
114.5 × 91.5 cm
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Bust of a Youth(Saint John the Baptist?), Francesco Mochi (Italian, 1580-1654), 1625-405
Marble, on variegated black marble socle
40.5 × 33 × 29 cm
The Calydonian Boar Hunt, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640), 1611-1612
Oil on panel
Lucretia, Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, 1593-after 1654), ca. 1627
Oil on canvas
Cupid Chastised, Bartolomeo Manfredi (Italian, 1582-1622), 1613
Oil on canvas
175.3 × 130.6 cm
Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Dutch, 1606-1684), Still Life with Fruit and Butterflies, 1652
Oil on oak
32.8 x 48.8 cm
Landscape with the Ruins of the Castle of Egmond, Jacob van Ruisdael (Dutch, 1628/29-1682), 1650-55
Oil on canvas
98 × 130 cm
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TIL that Japan had a monster-collecting card game in the Edo Period (1603-1868)
viaift.tt
the best one in the original known set is shumoku musume
Maria Sibylla Merian — Banana Tree Flower with Io Moth from Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Insects of Suriname) first published in 1705.
Merian was a German artist and naturalist self funded a trip Suriname to record the entomological life in the region. A somewhat unusual enterprise for a woman even under Dutch Colonial Rule.
Portrait of Merian by Jacob Marrel. 1679.
Detail from “Saint Jerome Meditating”, 1605, Caravaggio.
princess eleonora maria of austria, queen of poland, grand duchess of lithuania, and duchess of lorraine
charles brendel, 1684
maria anna, archduchess of austria, duchess of jülich-berg, and electoral princess of the palatinate
unidentified painter, 1678
Details:The Feast of the Bean King, Jacob Jordaens - 1640-1645
