17th-century paintings

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 56. Chapters: 1600s paintings, 1620s paintings, 1640s paintings, 1650s paintings, 1660s paintings, 1670s paintings, 1690s paintings, 17th-century portraits, Rokeby Venus, The Four Seasons, Cobbe portrait, The Allegory of Faith, Bathsheba at Her Bath, The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis, Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar, Laocoön, Amor Vincit Omnia, Self Portrait with Two Circles, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Saint John the Evangelist, Chandos portrait, Coffin portrait, Opening of the Fifth Seal, Saint Praxedis, The Waterseller of Seville, The Astronomer, Jacob de Gheyn III, Death of the Virgin, Portrait of a Young Woman, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, The Gallant Conversation, Saint Jerome Writing, David with the Head of Goliath, The Wine Glass, Ex-Voto de 1662, The Lacemaker, Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt and his Page, The Entombment of Christ, Still Life with Fruit, The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew, Girl with a Red Hat, Madonna and Child with St. Anne, The Raising of Lazarus, Dormition of the Virgin, The Floating Feather, View of Toledo, Lady Seated at a Virginal, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, The Flagellation of Christ, The Jewish Bride, The Love Letter, The Seven Works of Mercy, Woman with a Lute, The Cholmondeley Ladies, The Crowning with Thorns, The Feast of Saint Nicholas, Saint Francis in Prayer, Christ on the Mount of Olives, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Laughing Cavalier, Lady Standing at a Virginal, Madonna di Loreto, Portrait of Pope Paul V, Honeysuckle Bower, Christ at the Column, Quadroni of St. Charles, A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals, Assumption of the Virgin, Woman with a Water Jug, Saint Jerome in Meditation, The Concert, Windsor Beauties, Syndics of the Drapers' Guild, Officer and Laughing Girl, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, Madrid, Hampton Court Beauties, The Mill, Saint Francis in Meditation, The Gonzaga Family in Adoration of the Holy Trinity, The Incredulity of Saint Thomas, Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli, Domine quo vadis?, Portrait of the Infanta Maria Theresa of Spain, The Chinese Convert, Saint George and the Dragon, Santa Vergine con il Bambino. Excerpt: The Rokeby Venus (also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo) is a painting by Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Completed between 1647 and 1651, and probably painted during the artist's visit to Italy, the work depicts the goddess Venus in a sensual pose, lying on a bed and looking into a mirror held by the Roman god of physical love, her son Cupid. The painting is in the National Gallery, London. Numerous works, from the ancient to the baroque, have been cited as sources of inspiration for Velázquez. The nude Venuses of the Italian painters, such as Giorgione's Sleeping Venus (c. 1510) and Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538), were the main precedents. In this work, Velázquez combined two established poses for Venus: recumbent on a couch or a bed, and gazing at a mirror. She is often described as looking at herself on the mirror, although this is physically impossible since viewers can see her face reflected in their direction. In a number of ways the painting represents a pictorial departure, through its central use of a mirror, and because it shows the body of Venus turned away from the observer of the painting. The Rokeby Venus is the only surviving female nude by Velázquez. Nudes were extrem...