Wölfflin chapter 5 Clearness and unclearness
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Titian (b. 1490, Pieve di Cadore, d. 1576, Venice)
1548
Portrait of Charles V
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Oil on canvas 205*122 cm
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Antonio Moro (Anthonis Mor van Dashorst) (b. 1516/19, Utrecht, d. 1576/77 Antwerp)
1554
Queen Mary I of England
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Oil on panel 109*84 cm
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Diego Velazquez (b. 1599, Seville, d. 1660, Madrid)
1660
Infante Philip Prosper
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Oil on canvas 128.5*99.5 cm
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Aelbert Cuyp (b. 1620, Dordrecht, d. 1691, Dordrecht)
Herdsmen with Cows
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Oil on canvas 101.4*145.8 cm
Landscape with sheep (b/w) (Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt)
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Pieter de Hooch (b. 1629, Rotterdam, d. 1684, Amsterdam)
1659
Mother beside a cradle
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Oil on canvas 92*100 cm
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (b. 1577, Siegen, d. 1640, Antwerp)
1638
Andromeda
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin
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Rembrandt (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
1647
Susanna at the Bath
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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Titian (b. 1490, Pieve di Cadore, d. 1576, Venice)
1542
Clarissa Strozzi
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Oil on canvas 115*98 cm
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Jan Vermeer (b. 1632, Delft, d. 1675, Delft)
1662
The Music Lesson
Royal Collection
Oil on canvas 73.3*64.5 cm
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Rembrandt (b. 1606, Leiden, d. 1669, Amsterdam)
1652
Christ preaching
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Etching, engraving, and drypoint 15.3*20.5 cm
This engraving is related to the celebrated 'Hundred Guilder print' The Little Children Being Brought to Jesus 1647-9 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
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Gerard Terborch (b. 1617, Zwolle, d. 1681, Deventer)
c. 1655
The 'Parental Admonition'
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Oil on canvas 70*60 cm
In The Singer, a version of this composition in the National Gallery of Scotland, the girl holds a book of music and the young officer is clearly more interested in securing her affections than her admonishment.
The 'title that does not fit the picture' was given by Goethe in his "Die Wahlverwandtschaften". The biographer of Terborch interprets this picture as a brothel scene, assuming that the seated officer holds up a coin which he offers to the girl.
The coin was missing in the engraving that Goethe knew.
There is a third version, with an open door in the background, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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