File:The Four Evangelists (Abraham Bloemaert).jpg
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Abraham Bloemaert: The Four Evangelists | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q329811 |
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Title |
Nederlands: De Vier Evangelisten English: The Four Evangelists |
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Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | religious art | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
English: The four evangelists traditionally appeared alone, but in 1526, Albrecht Dürer showed two groups of two evangelists, and about 1566, Frans Floris showed all four together. Other artists followed suit. Bloemaert’s student Hendrick Terbruggen (1588–1629) and Peter Paul Rubens prolonged the theme, but it disappeared after 1621.
Here the Utrecht painter attempts to unify the evangelists and their symbols in a logical, horizontal composition. Luke with his ox, Mark with his lion, John with his eagle, and Matthew with his angel are gathered around a table, each figure intently writing his Gospel. Mark’s lion peeks out from underneath a heavy carpet. Bloemaert boldly poses Matthew with his back toward the viewer, perhaps to convey an impression of an uncontrived gathering of figures in a realistic setting. The scene is set in a shallow space, but the vibrant coloring of the figures, the angularity of their poses, and the frontal lighting give the composition a feeling of depth. Various naturally observed details stand out, such as the broken rush seat of Matthew’s humble chair and Luke’s ox, which gazes out from this learned gathering. The patron saint of artists and doctors, Luke is shown with the tools of these professions, including the artist’s palette and the doctor’s bottle for urine samples, and he is writing the Gospel in Greek characters. One of the folio volumes at his feet bears Bloemaert’s signature on the spine. Utrecht was a Catholic stronghold, and Bloemaert, a practicing Catholic, was a founding member of its painter’s guild in 1611; he had patrons in both the Northern and the Southern Netherlands. The location for which this painting was commissioned has not been identified. The subject of the four evangelists appealed to both Catholics and Protestants, so it might have been a "safe" subject for a Northern Netherlandish Catholic church. |
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Date |
circa 1612 date QS:P571,+1612-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 -15 |
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Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 179 cm (70.4 in); width: 227.3 cm (89.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,179U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,227.3U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q2603905 |
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Current location |
European Art |
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Accession number |
y1991-41 |
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Place of creation | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | Princeton University Art Museum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Annotations InfoField | This image is annotated: View the annotations at Commons |
At Luke's feet: a doctor’s bottle for urine samples & an artist’s palette. Luke is the patron saint of doctors & artists.
the lion of Mark (the bearded man above/behind) peeks out from underneath a heavy carpet
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Software used | Adobe Photoshop 7.0 |
File change date and time | 21:37, 26 August 2004 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
IIM version | 2 |