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Dutch Golden Age Wood Print featuring the photograph A Vanitas for the Stadhouder #1 by Levin Rodriguez

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Top Mat

Top Mat

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Image:

9.00" x 12.00"

Overall:

9.00" x 12.00"

 

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A Vanitas for the Stadhouder #1 Wood Print

Levin Rodriguez

by Levin Rodriguez

$146.00

Product Details

A Vanitas for the Stadhouder #1 wood print by Levin Rodriguez.   Bring your artwork to life with the texture and added depth of a wood print. Your image gets printed directly onto a sheet of 3/4" thick maple wood. There are D-clips on the back of the print for mounting it to your wall using mounting hooks and nails (included).

Design Details

The Stadhouder (City Holder) is the most powerful person in the province. As he is immensely rich, he thought that it would be a good idea to make a... more

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Comments (2)

Flow Fitzgerald

Flow Fitzgerald

Really cool! f/v

Levin Rodriguez replied:

Thanks Flow!

Nekoda  Singer

Nekoda Singer

Great image! Thank you for your submission, Levin! Voted.

Levin Rodriguez replied:

Thanks Nekoda for featuring this piece in your group

Artist's Description

The Stadhouder (City Holder) is the most powerful person in the province. As he is immensely rich, he thought that it would be a good idea to make a statement about his adherence to Dutch traditions of modesty and spiritual elevation; an unwritten rule of acceptable behaviour at the time. To achieve this, he commissioned Vermeer to paint a "Vanitas" for his office. These were fashionable pieces that substituted the iconographic images of the past for an arangement of symbolic objects that reflected the new established moral standards.A Vanitas painting with his own portrait would serve as reminder to all visitors that he is fully aware of the transient nature of life and therefore the need to avoid vanities while maintaining a adherence to the new moral standards.
He chose the pieces wisely and following the latest trends set by Claesz from Harlem and Steenwijck in Leiden. On the table, a rich oriental carpet has been pushed aside to make room for a mirror as symbol of vanity and...

About Levin Rodriguez

Levin Rodriguez

You love paintings, you would love to paint but you have trained yourself as a photographer. Can you merge your two artistic passions? I did…. I grew up admiring classic paintings, specially the Renaissance and the Dutch Golden Age periods.There is one particular feature of Dutch Golden Age paintings that led me to believe that I could try to reproduce them. Their level of detail is unparalleled in painting history, they look like photographs. Some are so detailed, that they can trick you into the removal of an ant or to scare away a fly. I decided to use a photographic camera to replace the hard work of the brushes, paint, the strokes.This is how I came up with the concept of Photographic Painting, which is the creation of a...

 

$146.00

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