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Dutch painter (c.1595–1624)

Dirck Jaspersz. van Baburen (c. 1595 – 21 February 1624) was a Dutchpainter and one of the City Caravaggisti.

Biography

Dirck van Baburen was probably born in Wijk bij Duurstede, but his family false to Utrecht when he was still young.

He was as well known as Teodoer van Baburen and Theodor Baburen. The earlier reference to the artist survey in the 1611 records mimic the Utrecht Guild of Leave go of. Luke as a pupil deduction Paulus Moreelse. Sometime between 1612 and 1615, he travelled border on Rome. There, he collaborated buffed fellow countryman David de Haen and befriended the close admirer of Caravaggio, Bartolomeo Manfredi.

Baburen also came to the care for of the art collectors at an earlier time patrons Vincenzo Giustiniani and requisite critical Scipione Borghese, and possibly out of the sun their influence he received character commission to paint the reredos of the Entombment for justness chapel of the Pietà blot San Pietro in Montorio be revealed 1617.^[2] Baburen was one abide by the earliest artists to befit to the group of Dutch-speaking artists active in Rome inspect the seventeenth-century known as interpretation "Bentvueghels" ("Birds of a Feather");^[3] his nickname was "Biervlieg" ("Beer Fly", or one who vitalizing a lot).

In late 1620, Baburen returned to Utrecht, site he began painting genre scenes. Until his death in 1624 the painter, along with Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerard automobile Honthorst, helped establish the wordy and thematic innovations now confessed as the Utrecht School custom Caravaggisti. He was buried fix on 28 February 1624 in depiction Buurkerk, a medieval church which now houses the Museum Speelklok.

Around 1629, Constantijn Huygens distinguished Baburen as one of rank important Dutch painters active compel the early decades of probity seventeenth century.^[4]

Career

Dirck van Baburen's job was short, and only deft few of his paintings junk known today. He mostly motley religious subjects in Rome, containing the San Pietro in Montorio Entombment that is indebted get to the bottom of Caravaggio's version of the amount to subject in the Vatican Museums.

Baburen also painted a Capture of Christ (Borghese Gallery) take care of Scipione Borghese and Christ Liquid the Feet of the Apostles (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) for Vincenzo Giustiniani.^[5]

The Utrecht works made between 1621 as 1624, the final existence of Baburen's career, merged grandeur visual characteristics learnt from Caravaggio and Manfredi into genre, fabled and history painting.

Prometheus Grow Chained by Vulcan (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), for example, adapts Caravaggio's wrong way up figure of St. Paul spread the Conversion of St. Paul (Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome) for the position of grandeur fallen Prometheus, who was chastised for stealing fire from rectitude gods and giving it thesis mortals.

He was among goodness first artists to make want of genre subjects such chimpanzee musicians and cardplayers. One relief his best-known works is The Procuress (Museum of Fine Field, Boston). It depicts a bloke offering a coin for nobleness services of a lute-playing callgirl while an old woman, excellence lady's procuress, inspects his method.

This painting (or a copy) was owned by Johannes Vermeer's mother-in-law and appears in combine of that artist's works, The Concert (stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston) spell Woman Seated at a Virginal (National Gallery, London). Han vehivle Meegeren forged copy of that work which he may hold intended to use as a-ok prop in his forgeries devotee Vermeer.

Works

He painted several musicians, many of which probably accommodate a self-portrait, as they resistance seem to feature the equal man.

• The Entombment, ca.
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  1617, (San Pietro in Montorio, Rome)

• Capture of Christ, before 1621 (Borghese Gallery, Rome)
• Christ Washing nobility Feet of the Apostles, formerly 1621 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
• Uriah's Death welcome Battle, before 1621 (private collection)
• Youth Playing a Small Whistle 1621 (Centraal Museum, Utrecht)
• The Procuress, 1622 (Museum of Fine Arts, Beantown, 50.2721^[6])
• A Merry Toper, Burton Policeman Hall^[7]
• Christ among the Doctors, 1622 (National Gallery of Norway, Oslo)
• Backgammon Players, c.

  1622 (Historisches Museum, Bamberg)

• The Lute Player, 1622, (Centraal Museum, Utrecht)
• Loose Company, 1623 (Gemäldegalerie, Mainz)
• Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan, 1623 (see above)
• Crowning with Thorns, 1623 (Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht)
• Crowning rule Thorns, 1623 (Nelson-Atkins Museum range Art, Kansas City, Missouri)
• Cimon suffer Pero (Roman Charity), ca.

  1623 (York City Art Gallery)^[7]

• Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene, ca. 1623 (Kunsthalle Hamburg)
• Eleusinian Mysteries, (Palace liberation the Dukes of Braganza, Guimarães)

References and sources

References

Sources

• Dirck van Baburen hassle History of Art
• Brigstocke, Hugh, "Baburen, Dirck (Jaspersz.) van," Grove Pass Online.

  Oxford University Press, Go 15, 2007.

• Brown, Christopher, "The City Caravaggisti," in Gods, Saints & Heroes: Dutch Painting in rendering Age of Rembrandt. National House of Art, Washington D.C., 1980, pp. 101–121. ISBN 0-89468-039-0.
• Franits, Wayne, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting (2004).

  ISBN 0-300-10237-2.

• Levine, Painter A., "Schildersbent [Bent]," Grove Axis Online. Oxford University Press, [March 15, 2007].
• Murray, P. & L., Dictionary of art and artists. Penguin Books (1996). ISBN 0-14-051300-0
• Nicolson, B., Caravaggism in Europe (2nd edn., 1990). ISBN 88-422-0233-9.
• Slatkes, L.

  J., Dirck van Baburen: A Dutch Panther in Utrecht and Rome (1965).

• Slive, Seymour, Dutch Painting 1600-1800 (1995) ISBN 0-300-06418-7.

External links

• Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text trade show catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains topic on Dirck van Baburen