Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675 Related Paintings of VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan :. | The Little Street st | The Lacemaker (detail) qwr | The Milkmaid yi | The Procuress (detail) wer | The Love Letter (detail) gh | Related Artists:
georg pauli1855-1935, youths bathing, 1914 nationalmuseum
WTEWAEL, JoachimDutch painter (b. 1566, Utrecht, d. 1638, Utrecht).
Dutch painter and draughtsman. He was one of the last exponents of MANNERISM. From c. 1590 until 1628, the year of his latest known dated paintings, he employed such typical Mannerist formal devices as brilliant decorative colour, contrived spatial design and contorted poses. He sometimes combined such artifice with naturalism, and this amalgam represents the two approaches Dutch 16th- and 17th-century theorists discussed as uyt den geest ('from the imagination') and naer 't leven ('after life'). Wtewael's activity reflects the transition from Mannerism to a more naturalistic style in Dutch art. Slightly over 100 of his paintings and about 80 drawings are known. Subjects from the Bible and mythology predominate;
nicolaes eliasz pickenoy1590-1654
