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The latter was inspired by a 2002 installation in the Palais Royal in Brussels, in
Brussels, 1958, pp. 23, 145, 190, relates it to the historic landscape tradition
One of Correggio’s most significant early works, this altarpiece was painted for a church in the artist’s hometown (from whence his name derives) to the east of Parma. It was commissioned by a local patron, Melchior Fassi, and hung in his chapel in the hospital church of Santa Maria Verberator, usually known as Santa Maria della Misericordia, until 1690
Paris, 1857, p. 92 [reprinted as "Trésors d’art en Angleterre," Brussels, 1860,
Watteau did not participate in public exhibitions, nor title his pictures, whose meaning is often difficult to fathom. This late work is clearly a theatrical subject, and as he is known to have made drawings of comic actors and quacks from an early age, he must have been interested in the theater throughout his short life
Brussels, 1912, pp. 70, 98–99, 113, 150, observes that the gestures suggest a tragedy
private collection, Canada) and "Landscape at Ornans" (Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
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He worked as a conservator at the Brussels Musical Instrument Museum from 2009 until
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d’Ichare / Fall of Icharus, ca. 1568: Photo © The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels
The Background: Between 1649 and 1651, Velázquez travelled to Italy for the second and last time in his life. The main purpose of the trip was to buy paintings and sculptures for King Philip IV of Spain, and while he was in Rome, the painter also received the prestigious commission to portray Pope Innocent X (the canvas is now in the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome)
Vol. 1, Brussels, 1920, p. 264, lists the Castle Howard and Radnor versions under
