Saint James the Great
The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1590
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jan van der Straet
Artist
Johannes Stradanus was a Flemish artist active mainly in 16th-century Florence, Italy. He was a wide-ranging talent who worked as an easel and fresco painter, designer of tapestries, draughtsman, designer of prints and pottery decorator. His subject range was varied and included history subjects, mythological scenes, allegories, landscapes, genre scenes, portraits, architectural scenes and animals. After training in his native Flanders, he left his home country and ultimately settled down in Florence, Italy. He became a prominent court artist to the Medici during the second half of the 16th century and worked on the many decorative projects of the court. Stradanus also produced large altarpieces for the most important churches in Florence.
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Design for Frontispiece to the Seven Virtues
1598 · Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, over traces of black chalk, on cream laid paper, incised for transfer
The Astrolabe - Amerigo Vespucci, from Nova Reperta
1580 · Engraving on ivory laid paper
Elephant Hunt
1578 · pen on paper, paint (coating), ink
The Capture of a Swarm of Bees in a Farmyard
1578 · Pen and brown ink and blue watercolor, with opaque white watercolor, over black chalk, on cream laid paper, incised with a stylus for transfer, laid down on cream laid paper
Men Hunting Ibexes with Hounds
1578 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on pieced cream laid paper, incised for transfer, laid down on cream laid paper
Cosimo I Medici treedt het College van Kardinalen te Rome binnen
1570 · pen on paint (coating), ink, paper
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- Jan van der Straet
- Year
- 1590
- Watts ID
- WW-1590-525880
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- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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- verified