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Rinaldo and Armida by Gaspar de Crayer returns to the Epiarte collection

The painting Rinaldo and Armida by Gaspar de Crayer returns to the Epiarte collection after been displayed at the 17th century Flemish painting room in the Museo de Bellas Artes of Valencia. Until february 8^th, the work occupied the place of the Anton van Dyck’s Equestrian Portrait of the III marquis of Aytona, that has been just restored. On the occasion of the return of the canvas by Gaspar de Crayer and the arrival of the Van Dyck’s painting, the director of the Instituto Moll, Ana Diéguez-Rodríguez, will give a speech about this last portrait on Thursday february 11th at 18:00 in the Museo de Bellas Artes of Valencia.
https://www.institutomoll.com/en/publication/155

Conference at the Museo Nacional del Prado

The next Wednesday February 24th the researcher Alicia Lozano Comino, who is currently working at the Instituto Moll, will take part at the congress A Century’s Worth of Shooting Stars whit the paper The professionalization of women artists through the miniature: the Francisca Meléndez subject. It will be held in the Museo Nacional del Prado at 10.45 H. For further information: https://www.museodelprado.es/recurso/un-siglo-de-estrellas-fugaces/93e5923c-aa31-49eb-b160-3aecd6ef4296

Philostrato, nº 8.

A new issue of Philostrato. Journal of History and Art, which is edited by the Instituto Moll, is already available. Access the table of contents and download them for free by clicking on the following link and choosing the language:

http://philostrato.revistahistoriayarte.es/index.php/moll/issue/view/17/showToc

#BaroquePride

Through the painting of Gérard de Lairesse (1641-1711): Samuel blesses young David from the Epiarte collection, the Instituto Moll joins to the initiative of choice December 7 as the Baroque day. 
The choice of this work within this Baroque style is in order to show that not everything in this movement is dynamism, big emotion and exuberance. At the same time that Jordaens was working on the Huis ten Bosch program in The Hague, other painters such as Gérard de Lairesse, was looking back the classic models, from Poussin, where the drawing was going to be decisive for the composition and references to classical architecture a constant.
Gérard is a Flemish-trained painter who moved to the Netherlands around 1664, where he would remain until the end of his life. This canvas shows the influence of Rembrandt and his school in the treatment of light, and in the recreation of Old Testament themes, so common in the Dutch school of the mid-seventeenth century. This influence allows to date the work between 1664 and 1690.
 

Van Dyck and his Workshop in Italy

The painting from the Epiarte collection, Saint Rosalie borned up to Heaven by Angels, provides Dr. Ana Diéguez-Rodríguez with the opportunity to think about the Van Dyck´s Workshops in Italy. He ran them as the Flemish model learned in Peter Paul Rubens Workshop.

You can get it here: https://www.institutomoll.com/en/publication/176