Adoration Of Magi Entourage De Flandres Rubens-seventeenth Century.

Adoration of the Magi, Rubens Flandres XVII century entourage. Oil on canvas 116 cm by 91 cm by 136 cm by 111 cm Frame This table XVIIth century, was probably executed by a PP employee. Rubens, we think Jan Boeckhorst (1605 Munster-Antwerp 1668). It represents the Adoration of the Magi who come to bring three gifts (gold, frankincense and myrrh) to the child Jesus. In the iconographic tradition Gaspard, with Asian features, offer incense, Melchior, represented as an old white bearded, gold, and Balthazar, the black skin, myrrh. This painting is in a good original condition. The colors remained very cool. Jan Boeckhorst (1605 Munster-Antwerp 1668). He was a collaborator of Peter Paul Rubens. Boeckhorst rarely bothered to sign or date his works, so that many of them were attributed to Rubens and Anthony Van Dyck in which he was a friend. Meanwhile, the history of art has recognized his authorship of many works by comparing styles or based on archival documents. With his depictions of saints, he began in the service of the Counter-Reformation. Although born in Germany, we Boeckhorst among the painters of the Flemish school. Painting the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. From the second half of the sixteenth century painting is revitalized mainly due to the expansion of the art market to the bourgeois classes. Indeed, until then, sponsors painters were either religious institutions, or the aristocratic class. The painters were also often tied them monks belonging to the monastic orders which emanated from the order, or artists / artisans hired as "servants" by the princes, and thus forming part of their servants, for a given time. The second part of the period called mannerist fits this market explosion of painting. Painter Professions and designer / writer are growing: they often have independent workshops, and there is a considerable increase in numbers of different urban guilds, particularly in Italian cities and in those of Flanders and the Nether- Netherlands, who take advantage of the wealth linked to maritime trade. If the most skilled painters, or the wealthy, traveled to train with internationally renowned teachers, including those in Venice and Rome, most others never left their native region, and worked a lot from prints. For it must be conscious as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the free copy or adaptation of important works created for the princes was a common and legitimate practice. The most famous painters were also the first to produce dozens of replicas or adaptations of their great works; they often delegated to their workshop. One of the subjects in vogue at that time for family devotional paintings, was the nativity; and the adoration of the Magi, maybe because the tale was dreaming ...