Sunday, January 09, 2005

Utrecht School

Principally a group of three Dutch painters - Dirck van Baburen (c. 1590 - 1624), Gerrit van Honthorst (1590 - 1656; see photograph), and Hendrik Terbrugghen (1588 - 1629) - who went to Rome and fell fully under the pervasive influence of Caravaggio's art before returning to Utrecht. Although none of them ever actually met Caravaggio (d. 1610), each had access to his paintings, knew his former patrons, and was influenced

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