ARD 517- Composition and chiaroscuro-MY TESTS PART III. Vanitas according to the masters of painting
Today I decided to work with the composition and chiaroscuro according to the rules of the Flemish Baroque masters of the brush. I have choosen a painting one by Harmen Steenwijck from 1646. Harmen Steenwijck or Harmen Steenwyck (1612-1656) was a Dutch still life painter from the Golden Age. Among the leading Dutch realist artists from the Delft / Leiden school, Harmen Steenwyck became one of the best still life painters of his time, specializing in painting the genre of vanitas still life in the early years of Dutch realism (c. 1600-80) in the Protestant Netherlands. In the field of still...