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Description: | 102.0 x 82.0 s. in oil b.l. "s.v.h" CRE HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van; (Dutch; 1627-1678) Van Hoogstraten was a very ambitious man to which his multi-faceted career can testify. Initially he trained with his father Dirck van Hoogstraten (1596-1640), before moving to Amsterdam to join Rembrandt's studio in 1640. Van Hoogstraten differed from his contemporaries in that he did not focus on one specific type, but created many different kinds of painting. Perhaps the most successful and highly acclaimed are his trompe l'oeil works and still-lives.
Hoogstraten visited Rome in 1652 and his study of Italian art is reflected in this painting, one of a series devoted to the life of Christ. It has been suggested that this painting is a pendant to Hoogstraten's Resurrection of Christ (Art Institute of Chicago). The two scenes have iconographical connections, stylistic similarities as well as similar sizes and signatures. The subject is taken from St Luke's Gospel. In his book about painting, the Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst, Rotterdam, 1678, Book 4, chapter 3 p 130, Hoogstraten includes a lengthy passage about the depiction of the New Jerusalem which may be relevant to the scene depicted in the background in this painting: Maer om uwen geest noch verder op te wekken, zoo verzier nieuw slach van Amphiteatren, Paleyzen, Raethuizen?Galerien, of wat u lust: of schilder mij het Nieuw Jeruzalem near onzen Trant:
Van een zeer hoogen Berg, zach ik ter heilger steden,
Het groot Jeruzalem afdalen near beneden,
In Godes heerlijkheit; het blonk gelijk Kristal,
Of dierbre Japsis, lichten schoon, haer hooge wal
Had twalef poorten, daer zich twalef Englen stelden,
Waer op men't twalef tal der stamen Jakobs spelden.
Drie Poorten zachm' in 't Oost, en drie in 't Noorden staen,
Drie zagen Zuitwaert uit, en drie ten Westen aen.
De Muer der steede steunde op twalef grongebouwen,
En in elk stuk was een Apostels naem gehouwen.
Maer hy, die met my sprak, bestond de groote Stadt
Met eene steng van goud te meten, en hy mat
Haer wijte en lengt gelijk; twalef duizent stadjen breette,
En even juist zoo hoog, recht vierkant waer hy 't meete.
Zoo mat hy ook de muer vasn Jaspis vel en klaer..
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Maer al wie aengeschreven
In 't boek des Leevens en des Lams is, zal hier leeven. Doch hiertoe zal u en verwe en vermogen te kort schieten; want dit groote werk is alleen d'opperwerkmeester aller dingen machtich | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | BIBLE : PASSION OF CHRIST : FIGURE : NEW TESTAMENT : FEMALE : CHRIST : REMBRANDT SCHOOL : NIRP2005 : NIRP2005 : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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