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Description: | Matthias Stom (or Stomer) was a Dutch painter from Utrecht who shows the influence of Caravaggio whose works he studied in Italy. Like many Dutch artists, he was drawn to the immediacy of Caravaggio's new, realistic style of painting, his use of peasant types and his dramatic light effects. Here, he follows a favourite device of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio in showing a candle held behind the hand making the flesh of the fingers, a glowing, nearly transparent, red. The contrast of youth and age is a traditional motif in Netherlandish painting from the fifteenth century onwards. It suggested the vanity of human life and the brevity of youth. | Subjects: | interior (candlelight scene);allegory (youth and age) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Stom, Matthias (Dutch painter, ca.1600-after 1650) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9167... | Go to resource |
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