Girl at a Window

Girl at a WindowPainted in 1645 when Rembrandt was thirty nine, the painting has always been the subject of speculation and conflicting interpretations. A frequently quoted account by the French art theorist and early owner of the work, Roger de Piles (1635 1709), of passers by seeing it in a window and mistaking it for a real flesh and blood girl, is probably more of a general comment on Rembrandt's ability to seduce his viewers with an illusion than a strictly

to his role as intercessor in difficult births

225 - 258) was one of the seven deacons of ancient Rome who were martyred during the persecution of Valerian in 258 AD

Influenced initially by Pieter van Laer ('Bamboccio')

one after the other he swallowed all five of the children he had fathered with Rhea

though the identification of one of the figures as the goddess Ceres is doubtful

Annibale Carracci (the soldiers

There is no procession of angels striding up and down

A copy is in the Pinacoteca

around 1870

The events around the birth and nurture of the infant Jupiter are described by four ancient Greek and Latin poets: Hesiod

Attributed in early catalogues to Van Dyck but catalogued in 1980 as After Cornelius Jonson the elder

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