Jan Bot ( Dutch Jan Dirksz Both ; 1618 ? - 1652 ) - Dutch painter of the Italianizing direction, member of the Roman Academy of St. Luke.
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| Birth name | Jan Dirksz Both |
| Date of Birth | 1610 or 1618 |
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| Nationality |  Republic of the United Provinces |
| Genre | scenery |
| Style | Dutch school, Italianizing direction |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 notes
- 4 References
Biography
Born in Utrecht, brother of Andris Botha . According to Houbraken , the brothers learned to draw from their father, who was a glass artist. Later, Jan was a student of Abraham Bloemart .. He left his native Holland at twenty, traveled to France and Italy . In 1638, Ian and his brother were in Rome, where Ian worked on landscapes in the style of Claude Lorren . In 1639, Jan collaborated with Herman van Suanevel and Claude Lorraine on a project for the Buena Retiro Palace in Madrid. In 1646, the artist returned to Utrecht, where he continued to work on landscapes, improving them.
Creativity
His paintings are compositions depicting a mostly romanticized Italian landscape , sometimes with figures of peasants, shepherds, travelers. A distinctive feature is the golden color - we can say that with the creativity of Jan Botha sunlight entered the Dutch landscape painting . He influenced Jan Baptist Venix and Albert Cape , who after him also became "singers of sunlight."
Collaborated with his brother Andris Bot , Cornelius van Pulenburg and Nikolaus Knüpfer .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 11893810X // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Jan Dircksz Both
- ↑ KulturNav - 2015.
Links
- Jan Bot (unavailable link from 06/14/2016 [1205 days])
- Artcyclopedia
- Dutch painting of the 17th — 18th centuries in the Hermitage
- Tarasov Yu. A. Dutch landscape of the 17th century. M., 1983