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News and Articles on Jan Steen
Quadricentennial cuisine, from soup to nuts Oct 16, 2009
Rose s discussion will weave together food and drink imagery in the works of seventeenth century Dutch painters including Jan Steen, Adriaen van Ostade, Pieter Claesz and Harmen van Steenwijck and contemporary food practices and diet. These artists and others whose works will displayed in Rose s 40 slides, depict taverns, marketplace and festival scenes. (Catskill Daily Mail, NY)
ACCLAMATION FOR ART RECLAMATION Mar 13, 2009
There's also a rare dramatic work from Dutch master Jan Steen, his "Sacrifice of Iphigenia," in which Agamemnon - about to lose his daughter - slumps in a corner, a dog crouching at his feet, while a young Cupid weeps. After the war, the Allies recovered some 200 of these works, some from the hiding places where Hitler's henchmen stashed them. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Cities captured by master strokes Feb 22, 2009
The National Gallery has assembled a small but choice gathering of paintings from an impressive array of artists of the period: Jacob van Ruisdael, Pieter de Hooch, Aelbert Cuyp, Jan van Goyen, and Jan Steen. In addition to the nearly 50 canvases, there are two dozen maps, atlases, and prints. (Boston Globe)
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