Rembrandt van Rijn Essay

Rotterdam, De Hooch later served his apprenticeship under the landscape painter Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem in Haarlem. He is recorded as a painter and footman to a wealthy merchant-adventurer Justus de la Grange in 1653. In 1654, he married Jannetje van der Burch of Delft, and later he had seven children. Moving to Delft after his marriage, he was registered with the Delft guild and became an independent artist in 1655. During the years in Delft, he produced his most characteristic works. In 1661

3. Courbet and the Rule Breakers Gustav Courbet did not just “record the manners, ideas, and aspects” of his day and time. His art was his personal view of the times and commented on the values he did not accept. He only wanted to be considered as part of the “regime of liberty.” Reactions to what already is or claiming to be free as an artist also has emotions and expressions of belief. Maybe Courbet felt like established rules with the art schools or style were too limiting for his own style or

Francisco Goya was a Spanish painter and printmaker, especially known for his works depicting and commenting on the horrors of the French Occupation of Spain during the Peninsular War, in the early 1800’s. ‘The Third of May’, an oil on canvas painting created in 1814 by Goya, illustrates the mass executions of innocent Spanish civilians, in response to the uprising of civilians against the French military the previous day. ‘Saturn Devouring his son’, another oil on canvas masterpiece by Goya, depicts

painting of the Renaissance and this is perhaps what enticed Caravaggio to paint the Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The history of the Baroque period cannot be discussed further without mentioning the Dutch artist Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, whose “Baroque paintings rose to universal significance and appeal” (Gerdes 264). His style created gorgeous movement and fluidity characterized by