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Joachim Wtewael Jupiter and Danae (mk05) oil painting on canvas
Jupiter and Danae (mk05)
Painting ID::  20363
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Joachim Wtewael Jupiter and Danae (mk05) oil painting on canvas



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  Joachim Wtewael
  1566-1638 Flemish Joachim Wtewael Galleries 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). Wtewaels 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; he also painted several portraits, including a Self-portrait (1601; Utrecht, Cent. Mus.).
  Jupiter and Danae (mk05)
  Copper 8 1/4 x 6 1/4''(21 x 16 cm).Acquired in 1979

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