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IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens
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2/2 Lovely study of the artist's father. Giovanni Serodine used him as a model in many of his paintings, as you will see on his day today.
2/2 The artist's father, 1628. Clearly model for Saint Joseph, right? By Giovanni Serodine.
Died (possibly) on this day in 1630, in Rome, Swiss-Italian painter Giovanni Serodine. Was so young! Here, by himself, being an artist.
Nave & Choir of the Mariakerk in Utrecht. Complete with dogs, graffiti, and a group of people admiring a painting of the Utrecht Bull. By Pieter Saenredam, on his day.
Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's. Giovanni Serodine's masterpiece. Today is his day.
2/2 Christ calls James and John to follow him. Their dad, Zebedee, is in a state of shock. Weren't they going to work for the family business? By Giovanni Serodine, 1620s.
View down the nave of an exceptionally whitewashed Bavokerk, 1631. It wasn’t really this lacking in decoration, but Saenredam’s patrons liked clean look. Today was his day.
Holy Family. Baby J plump and happy, as he looks at -- the artist's father, starring as Joseph! Nice filial tribute there from Giovanni Serodine, whose day is today.
