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The Three Graces (Jan Brueghel d.y.) - Nationalmuseum - 17604

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The Three Graces (Jan Brueghel d.y.) - Nationalmuseum - 17604

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The three Graces, some sort of goddesses of joy, were the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome in Greek mythology. They were a common artistic motif and Rubens—one of the Baroque’s most illustrious painters—returned to it several times. Here the Graces lift a basket of flowers in a combined effort. The artist doesn’t, however, concentrate on the mythological narrative but on rendering the shapes and movements of the female bodies. The naked skin appears warm and alive before the viewer’s eyes. Svenska: De tre gracerna, ett slags glädjens gudinnor, var i den grekiska mytologin döttrar till Zeus och Eurynome. De var ett vanligt motiv i konsten och Rubens – en av barockens mest kända målare – återvände till det flera gånger. Här lyfter gracerna i en gemensam kraftansträngning en blomsterkorg. Konstnären koncentrerar sig dock inte på den mytologiska berättelsen utan på att framställa de kvinnliga kropparnas former och rörelser. Den nakna huden framstår som varm och levande inför betraktarens ögon.

By the last decades of the 16th century, the refined Mannerism style had ceased to be an effective means of religious art expression. Catholic Church fought against Protestant Reformation to re-establish its dominance in European art by infusing Renaissance aesthetics enhanced by a new exuberant extravagance and penchant for the ornate. The new style was coined Baroque and roughly coincides with the 17th century. Baroque emphasizes dramatic motion, clear, easily interpreted grandeur, sensuous richness, drama, dynamism, movement, tension, emotional exuberance, and details, and often defined as being bizarre, or uneven. The term Baroque likely derived from the Italian word barocco, used by earlier scholars to name an obstacle in schematic logic to denote a contorted idea or involuted process of thought. Another possible source is the Portuguese word barroco (Spanish barrueco), used to describe an irregular or imperfectly shaped pearl, and this usage still survives in the jeweler’s term baroque pearl. Baroque spread across Europe led by the Pope in Rome and powerful religious orders as well as Catholic monarchs to Northern Italy, France, Spain, Flanders, Portugal, Austria, southern Germany, and colonial South America.

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1700 - 1900
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Nationalmuseum Stockholm
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