Pieter de Hooch and Gerrit Dou: 17th century Dutch painters

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November 18, 2012

 

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His scenes of domestic, bourgeois life were tremendously popular. The woman is in this painting seems to be sitting in near-darkness. She is reading a story from her Bible about the entry of Jesus into Jericho, an episode from the Gospel. The illustration in the Bible shows Simon the tax collector, who climbed a tree to observe the event...
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Jesus, who is shown looking up at him, went to the man's house despite his disciples' objections to his visiting a tax-collector, for the profession was considered corrupt. This story was very popular amongst Protestants, proving that sinners are saved by faith alone. Dou generally painted on a smaller scale than his contemporary Rembrandt, manifested here as a single women with a face that is incredibly smooth, another trademark of his...
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