All BIJLERT, Jan van's oil paintings
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5187 The Concert in The Concert in 1635-40 Oil on canvas Private collection
43828 Ulysses and Circe Ulysses and Circe Oil on panel, 51 x 81 cm
62371 Ulysses and Circe - Oil on panel Ulysses and Circe - Oil on panel 51 x 81 cm Private collection The present painting depicts an episode from the Odyssey (Bk 10). On their journey home after the Trojan War, Ulysses and his companions came upon the island of the sorceress, Circe. With a magic potion, she transformed the men into swine; however Ulysses, having been forewarned by Mercury and having taken an antidote, was able to resist her magic. The present painting depicts the moment when Circe lifts her wand to touch Ulysses and activate the spell
51982 Venus and Amor and an old Woman Venus and Amor and an old Woman 1630s Oil on canvas
BIJLERT, Jan van
Dutch painter, Utrecht school (b. 1597/98, Utrecht, d. 1671, Utrecht) Dutch painter. He was the son of the Utrecht glass painter Herman Beerntsz. van Bijlert (c. 1566-before 1615). Jan must have trained first with his father but was later apprenticed to the painter Abraham Bloemaert. After his initial training, he visited France and travelled to Italy, as did other artists from Utrecht. Jan stayed mainly in Rome, where he became a member of the Schildersbent; he returned to Utrecht in 1624. In Rome he and the other Utrecht artists had come under the influence of the work of Caravaggio; after their return home, this group of painters, who became known as the UTRECHT CARAVAGGISTI, adapted the style of Caravaggio to their own local idiom. The Caravaggesque style, evident in van Bijlert's early paintings. . Related Artists to : | wilhelm bendz | Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein | Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione | studio of giotto | William Lionel Wyllie |