The Young Van Dyck
Celebrates the early virtuosity of Van Dyck with an in-depth study of the work he produced before the age of twenty-two

By the age of twenty-two, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) had produced more than 160 paintings, many of them ambitious compositions of remarkable quality. This book presents the work created during the eight years between 1613, when he was just fourteen, to his departure for Italy from Antwerp in October 1621. Were the paintings he created during these years his only legacy, he would still be recognized as one of the greatest artists of the seventeenth century.

 Van Dyck’s precocious talents are brilliantly demonstrated in the many important works reproduced here, among them such strikingly original masterpieces as The Taking of Christ and Saint Jerome in the Desert. Others—Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem and The Lamentation, for example—reveal Van Dyck at his most experimental, in search of new ways of increasing the visual impact of his compositions. Van Dyck was also one of the first painters to rise to the challenge of Rubens’s omnipresent influence, evident in works such as The Crowning with Thorns.

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The Young Van Dyck
Celebrates the early virtuosity of Van Dyck with an in-depth study of the work he produced before the age of twenty-two

By the age of twenty-two, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) had produced more than 160 paintings, many of them ambitious compositions of remarkable quality. This book presents the work created during the eight years between 1613, when he was just fourteen, to his departure for Italy from Antwerp in October 1621. Were the paintings he created during these years his only legacy, he would still be recognized as one of the greatest artists of the seventeenth century.

 Van Dyck’s precocious talents are brilliantly demonstrated in the many important works reproduced here, among them such strikingly original masterpieces as The Taking of Christ and Saint Jerome in the Desert. Others—Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem and The Lamentation, for example—reveal Van Dyck at his most experimental, in search of new ways of increasing the visual impact of his compositions. Van Dyck was also one of the first painters to rise to the challenge of Rubens’s omnipresent influence, evident in works such as The Crowning with Thorns.

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The Young Van Dyck

The Young Van Dyck

The Young Van Dyck

The Young Van Dyck

Overview

Celebrates the early virtuosity of Van Dyck with an in-depth study of the work he produced before the age of twenty-two

By the age of twenty-two, Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) had produced more than 160 paintings, many of them ambitious compositions of remarkable quality. This book presents the work created during the eight years between 1613, when he was just fourteen, to his departure for Italy from Antwerp in October 1621. Were the paintings he created during these years his only legacy, he would still be recognized as one of the greatest artists of the seventeenth century.

 Van Dyck’s precocious talents are brilliantly demonstrated in the many important works reproduced here, among them such strikingly original masterpieces as The Taking of Christ and Saint Jerome in the Desert. Others—Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem and The Lamentation, for example—reveal Van Dyck at his most experimental, in search of new ways of increasing the visual impact of his compositions. Van Dyck was also one of the first painters to rise to the challenge of Rubens’s omnipresent influence, evident in works such as The Crowning with Thorns.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780500970508
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 09/09/2013
Pages: 480
Product dimensions: 9.60(w) x 12.10(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Alejandro Vergara is chief curator of Flemish and Northern European paintings at the Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Friso Lammertse is curator of Old Master paintings and sculpture at the Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen, Rotterdam.
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