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The theater of painting.(artist David Teniers)
Catalogues are something we take for granted in the twenty-first century. After all, these days temporary exhibitions as well as permanent collections are well documented with detailed and profusely illustrated volumes. The origins of this practice, however, can be traced to the seventeenth century.
David Teniers the Younger was a prolific and successful painter based in Antwerp, where he became dean of the Guild of Painters in 1645. His legacy to art history, however, arises from 1651, when he was summoned to Brussels by the archduke of Austria Leopold Wilhelm to act as court painter. Leopold Wilhelm formed one of the greatest art collections of his age, and in addition to his painting duties Teniers became its curator.
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Teniers took his curatorial duties seriously, and they took two forms. The first was a pair of paintings depicting Leopold Wilhelm in his picture gallery (see illustration above), which show a large selection of his more than 1,300 works of art, as well as the collector and some of his influential friends. ...
- The Drummer, by David Teniers.
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- Leopold Wilhelm, Archduke of Austria, 1614-1662.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Art in America Ebony, David September 1, 1999 700+ words
...exceeding its $410,000 high estimate, and a world auction record for a carpet. A 1653 canvas by David Teniers II, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm and the Artist in the Archducal Picture Gallery in Brussels, brought $4.6 million, more than...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America Hickey, Dave September 1, 2009 700+ words
...property of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, a tougher, smarter...than Rudolph. When Leopold Wilhelm moved to Brussels...hired the painter David Teniers as his curator and...collecting big time. When Leopold Wilhelm died in 1662, his...
- Teniers cataloged paintings ... in a painting.(THE HOME FORUM)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor October 26, 2006 700+ words
...carried out by the Flemish artist David Teniers the Younger (1610-1690...appointed court artist to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the governor of the Austrian...of a large state room. * 'David Teniers and the Theatre of Painting...
- Anniversaries
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London December 15, 1994 700+ words
Births: Nero, Roman emperor, AD 37; David Teniers the Younger, painter, 1610; Births: Nero, Roman emperor, AD 37; David Teniers the Younger, painter, 1610; George Romney, portrait painter, 1734; Charles Cowden Clarke, Shakespearean...
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...Scotland an inspired new interpretation of the subject matter of the 17th-century Netherlandish masters Jan Steen, the two David Teniers, and Adriaen and Isaac van Ostade. The excitement caused by Wilkie's first submission to the Royal Academy, Village...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Florence Grossman December 18, 1988 700+ words
...Antwerp. A series of six extravagant Flemish commemorations done in the 17th century by J. Ph. le Bas after the paintings of David Teniers sells for $34 apiece. Among the signed and numbered contemporary works, a delicate 10-by-7-inch, hand-colored...
Source: HighBeam Research, The theater of painting.(artist David Teniers)