Sebastiaen Vrancx: Drawings & Paintings (Annotated) E-Book

Raya Yotova

• Herausgeber: Publisher s13381
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Beschreibung

Sebastiaen Vrancx was born in Antwerp, where his father was a merchant. Sebastian was an apprentice at the studio of Adam van Noort, who trained other prominent artists like Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens. After completing his learning, he became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke and visited Italy for a while. In Antwerp, Vrancx was particularly valuable as an artist of battle scenes. Here he was invited to join the elite of the Confrerie of Romanists, a society of humanists and artists from Antwerp. The high positions of his members provided him with an excellent opportunity to meet potential patrons. He was elected Dean of the City Guild of Artists and was a member and regional leader of the local civil militia. Sebastian Vrancx is known today mainly for his battle scenes, a genre he was probably the pioneer of art in northern Europe. But his subject matter was much broader than just war scenes. Vrancx painted landscapes with mythological and religious scenes, allegories of seasons and months, urban views, banquet scenes, rural scenes, genre scenes, and even architectural pictures. He is as well famous for a series of drawings depicting scenes from the Vergilian Aeneids and designs for the prints and publishers of Antwerp.

Leseprobe

Sebastiaen Vrancx

Drawings & Paintings (Annotated)

Annotated by Raya Yotova

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Paintings and Drawings

Foreword

Sebastiaen Vrancx was born in Antwerp, where his father was a merchant. Sebastian was an apprentice at the studio of Adam van Noort, who trained other prominent artists like Peter Paul Rubens and Jacob Jordaens.

After completing his learning, he became a master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke and visited Italy for a while. In Antwerp, Vrancx was particularly valuable as an artist of battle scenes.

Here he was invited to join the elite of the Confrerie of Romanists, a society of humanists and artists from Antwerp. The high positions of his members provided him with an excellent opportunity to meet potential patrons. He was elected Dean of the City Guild of Artists and was a member and regional leader of the local civil militia.

Sebastian Vrancx is known today mainly for his battle scenes, a genre he was probably the pioneer of art in northern Europe. But his subject matter was much broader than just war scenes. Vrancx painted landscapes with mythological and religious scenes, allegories of seasons and months, urban views, banquet scenes, rural scenes, genre scenes, and even architectural pictures. He is as well famous for a series of drawings depicting scenes from the Vergilian Aeneids and designs for the prints and publishers of Antwerp.

Vrancx is probably the first artist in the Netherlands who painted images of combat scenes. His practice as an officer and captain of the civil militia in Antwerp may have played a role in his interest in the development of this genre. Approximately half of his famous works are devoted to military scenes. He achieved more significant control over the representation of space and more extensive and more complex groups of figures. In his later period, his compositions are characterized by fainter and pearl tones and are less compact, but more dynamic. His theme, closely related to military scenes, is the scene of attacks by robbers on soldiers and soldier’s villages.

Vrancx has also created a series of paintings featuring "The Four Seasons" or "Months of the Year." In these allegorical pictures, every month or season is characterized by different phases of the landscape and its associated human activities. These paintings were very popular in Flemish art in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Vrancx had various followers, including Pieter Meulener, Jacques van der Wijen, and Adam Frans van der Meulen, a student of Peter Snayers.

Paintings and Drawings

Crossing of the Red Sea, 1590, Oil on canvas, 115.5 x 183 cm

Orpheus and the Beasts, 1595, Oil on canvas, 55 x 69 cm