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Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641).
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9 October, 2016 at 3:15 pm
The Netherlands produced some really fine artists of exceptional skill, better in my opinion that the Italian early renaissance schools. There is also a bit of humor in the picture, the dog in the bottom corner appears bemused by the music.
9 October, 2016 at 3:20 pm
It seems likely that those 17th century Dutch paintings achieved their realistic precision using newly developed optical devices, like the camera obscura. But that does not detract from their beauty or from the talented Aryan artists who painted them. Western art was reborn around the 14th century, peaked during the 17th and 18th centuries and started sliding into decadence around 1870. By the end of WWI it was pretty much over with. But after we get rid of the jewish bacillus once and for all there will be a rebirth of Aryan high culture.
9 October, 2016 at 3:39 pm
CW-2, you cannot beat early Rembrandt. Late Rembrandt is dark and sub-par, but his 1630s-era paintings were absolutely stunning (e.g., “Portrait of Jan Rijcksen and his Wife Griet Jans”).