Ebook: Anthony van Dyck

VAN DYCK'S PAINTINGS IN THE HERMITAGETHE HISTORY OF THE COLLECTION; THE FIRST ANTWERP PERIOD17Around 1616-1621; THE ITALIAN PERIOD; SECOND ANTWERP PERIOD; THE ENGLISH PERIOD; Notes; Biographical Outline; ANTWERP. 1627-32; Bibliography; Index of Works.;17th-century Flemish painter Van Dyck's career was as short as it was dazzling. A student of Rubens, he very quickly became the favourite painter of princes and kings and was the portraitist of English and Italian families of the high nobility. With his rigorous compositions, Van Dyck endowed his models with dignity, grandeur, and spirituality. Proud ladies, lords gambolling on their horses -- Van Dyck knew how to render the nonchalant elegance and the ennui of a refined society. A Baroque painter with a shimmering style, he played with a palette light and nuanced, and reproduced with the great.