Portrait of Adolf (1540-68), Count of Nassau, Wybrand de Geest (workshop of), c. 1633 - c. 1635
Northern Renaissance
1635
30.0 x 24.0 cm
Wybrand Simonsz. De Geest (1592 – 1661)
Entdecken Sie die Porträts von Wybrand de Geest (1592-1661), einem führenden Maler des niederländischen Goldenen Zeitalters aus Friesland. Erforschen Sie seine meisterhaften Darstellungen von Adel und Familie.
The Leeuwarden Series: Members of the House of Nassau Adolf of Nassau was born in 1540 as the fourth son of Willem the Rich and Juliana, Countess of Stolberg-Wernigerode. After studying at the University of Wittenberg he enlisted in the army of Emperor Charles V. In 1567 he embraced the politics of his brother William the Silent, and in 1568, together with his brother Lodewijk, he attacked the Spanish forces of the Duke of Alva in Groningerland. They were victorious at the Battle of Heiligerlee, which marked the beginning of the Eighty Years’ War, but it cost the 27-year-old Adolf his life.41 See entry SK-A-524 for a discussion of the style, attribution, prototype and dating of this portrait. A copy of this painting was made in 1671 by Johannes Tideman as part of a series of portraits for the Provinciehuis in Groningen.42 Yvette Bruijnen, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 355.
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- Titel: Portrait of Adolf (1540-68), Count of Nassau, Wybrand de Geest (workshop of), c. 1633 - c. 1635
- Künstler: Wybrand Simonsz. De Geest
- Jahr: 1635
- Originalmaße: 30.0 x 24.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Urheberrechtlicher Status: Gemeinfreiheit
- Kontext des Korpus: northern portraiture , italian renaissance
- Schlagworte: armor portrait style , dutch golden age , wybrand de geest
- Farbintensität: Monochromatic
- Empfundene Helligkeit: deep_shadow