The Mouseion · Europe 1300–1800 · The Golden Age

The Golden Age

The seventeenth century: Caravaggio’s darkness and light, Rubens’s energy, Velázquez in Madrid, and in the Dutch Republic a new market of ordinary buyers who wanted portraits, landscapes, still lifes and scenes of their own lives.

Walk inThe whole museum

On the walls this month

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  Wineglass and a Bowl of Fruit — Willem Kalf (1619–1693), 1663, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Portrait of a Woman, probably Aeltje Dircksdr. Pater — Frans Hals (1581–1666), 1638, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Portrait of a Woman — Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669), 1635 or earlier, oil on wood
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  The Kiss of Peace and Justice — Laurent de La Hyre (1606–1656), 1654, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  The Crucifixion — Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), 1627, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist — Guido Reni (1575–1642), c. 1639–42, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Fishing Boats in a Calm — Jan van de Cappelle (1626–1679), 1651, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Still Life with Game Fowl — Juan Sánchez Cotán (1560–1627), c. 1600–3, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Resurrection of Christ — Johann König (1586–1642), 1622, oil on copper
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Saint Francis Kneeling in Meditation — Domenico Theotokópoulos, called El Greco (1541–1614), c. 1595–c. 1600, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  View of Emmerich — Jan van Goyen (1596–1656), 1645, oil on wood
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Portrait of Mrs. Leneve — Peter Lely (1618–1680), c. 1657, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art
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  Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness — Diego Velázquez (1599–1660), c. 1622, Oil on canvas
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  The Battle between the Gods and the Giants — Joachim Antonisz. Wtewael (1566–1638), c. 1608, Oil on copper
  Original: The Art Institute of Chicago
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  Danaë — Orazio Gentileschi (1563–1639), c. 1623, oil on canvas
  Original: The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Where the works come from

Every work in the Mouseion is a real piece, out of copyright everywhere, shown from the open collections of the museums that hold it — each label names the original’s museum and links to its page there.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art — Open Access
• The Art Institute of Chicago — public-domain collection
• The Cleveland Museum of Art — Open Access
• Wikimedia Commons — public-domain photographs of works held elsewhere