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Jan van Kessel the Elder or Jan van Kessel (I) (baptized 5 April 1626, Antwerp – 17 April 1679, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp in the mid-17th century. A versatile artist, he practiced in many genres including studies of insects, floral still lifes, marines, river landscapes, paradise landscapes, allegorical compositions ...
His small-scale, brightly colored, and minutely detailed paintings on panel or copper were highly regarded by connoisseurs and princely collectors. Van Kessel is most renowned for his depictions of flowers, insects, and animals, both living and dead, but he also painted shells, armor, and still lifes of fruit, bouquets, and garlands.
Jan van Kessel the Elder or Jan van Kessel (I) (baptized 5 April 1626, Antwerp – 17 April 1679, Antwerp) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp in the mid 17th century. A versatile artist he practised in many genres including studies of insects, floral still lifes, marines, river landscapes, paradise landscapes, allegorical compositions ...
- Flemish
- April 5, 1626
- Antwerp, Belgium
- April 17, 1679
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This painting reveals Bruegel's close observation of nature and his desire to demonstrate God's greatness through its pictorial representation, a will that is manifest in his correspondence with his lifetime patron, Cardinal Federico Borromeo.
- ChristianityGardens & GardeningPaintings
- Oil painting
May 28, 2019 · As far as artist signatures go, Jan van Kessel's seventeenth-century painting in which he spells out his own name with caterpillars and snakes must be up there with the best of them.
During his mature phase Van Kessel painted the decorative borders for a series of twenty paintings that illustrate the lives of Antonio and Ramón Moncada, two Sicilian nobles of Spanish origin. The central images in these panels were painted by David Teniers II, Willem van Herp, Adam Frans van der Meulen, and Luigi Primo.
Ready to hang. Inspiration From The Phenomena Of Nature, Whether Human Or The Physical.
