Baroque Art in Flanders and Holland: An Overview

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Where are these paintings and who commissioned them?
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Rubens' triptych, the Elevation of the Cross, is located at the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp, Belgium and was commissioned as an altarpiece for that church. Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson of Dr.

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What are the different circumstances Rubens and Rembrandt worked in?
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As always, the website of the National Gallery in Washington D.C. does a great job of setting works of art in context. It explores the different environments these two great 17th-Century Baroque artists worked in—Rubens in Catholic Flanders and Rembrandt in the Protestant republic of Holland.

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Rubens's Elevation of the Cross is a 15 foot altarpiece
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Who was Dr. Tulp and what is he demonstrating precisely?
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Please visit Smarthistory.org
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Channels: European ArtPaintingRembrandtRubens

A conversation about the Baroque style in Catholic Flanders and Protestant Holland as exemplified by Peter Paul Rubens's Elevation of the Cross, oil on canvas, 1610-11 (Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp) and Rembrandt van Rijn's Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, oil on canvas, 1632, (Mauritshuis, The Hague).

Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker

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