To search the groups of press, associations, businessmen , sponsor for the site News-art-culture.com. From the elegance he passes to painting of court demonstrating a big talent for the portraits. The student and collaborator of Rubens  in charge his painting with refinement , the elegance of personages  and the effects of light. A Flaming painting more appreciated in all Europe. Antoon van Dyck is birth to Anversa in 22th March 1599 in the house named” Den Berendas” in center from city , the grandfather is painter , but change the work with the silk commercial activity at which enter all family. From family is the seventh son by Antoon Franchois  and Maria Cuypers which demonstrated  a big artistic talent, the first stages are make to Hendrick van Balen ‘s atelier with the first painting “ The Portrait of seventeen man “. Afterward he opens a personal atelier together with the young Jan Brueghel  the Young , where he receives the assignment of follow a series of prefigurated paintings “ The twelve apostles and a Jew  Sileno”.

Rubens; collaboration, the master , the friendships?

The student by Rubens  he becomes as collaborator in the work “ Decio Mure leave the readers or Achille between the sisters by Licomede”.From the Rubens’ atelier he comes known into the ambient of aristocracy and the riches bourgeois for the classic culture and the label of court. In the years he imitates the models by Rubens adopting more characteristics ( the Painting by Teodosio Emperor and Saint Ambrogio). Together at Rubens for Jesuit and for  them church the portraits( The portrait of Cornelius van der Geest or Maria van de Wouwer- Clarisse. From Rubens he assimilates the technic in part and the style. 

The formation, the artistic activity? 

He makes the artistic formation in Italy , copies someone renascent works , specially from his favorite painter Tiziano. From Italy he passed in Great Britain to court of Charles I Stuart occupied him of portraits. Principally Rubens is a portraitist  , he becomes the first paintre from court by Great Britain after a long stay in Italy. Universal is know for the portraits from Genova nobility and by the King Charles I of Great Britain, of the royal family’s members and from  royal court. He  is the paintre of a relaxed elegance, influencing the English portraitists , an example Peter Lely for successive years. He comes appreciated for his portraits , the biblical subjects  and mythologic until the artistic innovations. He becomes known for a major liberty into execution of paintings and from the theme of representing. He not love the classic world.

The style, characteristic, splendor? 

The portraits more brilliants and innovative there are: The portrait by Isabelle Brant ,The portrait by Frans Snydirs and od his wife Margareta de Vos. Giovani Pietro Bellori writing: “ They have been his luxury manners more that private man and amazing in richesse wearing cloths and devises, because addict  from the school by Rubens with the nobles men and being the elevated nature and desiring  of illustrious making him , therefore  beyond the drapes they adorned themselves , the head with the feathers and belts , he wearing the necklace of gold traversing the chest , with followed of servants…” He practices the painting in general , the portraits ( the painting of great dimensions). His personages are of best nobility to intern figure. He has got a big awfulness , relives the psychology of people , all is of particular symbolism. In art is original in double portraits, radiates in his personages which are from riche aristocracy. The brush strokes are with the energy and force , another are more soft and slowly. The theme are mythologic , allegoric, historic and religious. The subjects are of a delicate study, the brush strokes are round , the features are perfectly defined. A delicate idyllic atmosphere!

The works?

“ The portrait by Maffeo Barberini , The portrait by Emanuele Filiberto the prince by Savoia, Virgin of Rosario, Painting of Madonna of Rosario, The portraits by George Villiers , future duke by Buckingham  and the wife Lady Katherine  as Venere and Adonis of an allegoric character , taste typically  pastoral inspired from Tiziano, The portraits of marquise  Elena Grimaldi Cattaneo , The portrait of cardinal Guido Bentivoglio ( the protector from flaming community ), The portrait  by lady Theresa Shirley and portrait by Sir Robert Shirley , The portraits doubles- Portrait equestrian by Antoon Giulio Brignole- Sale created together at Portrait of Paolina Adorno, portraits of group- The family Lomellini, The portrait by Maria Luisa of Tassis, Sansone  and Dalila, The Ecstasy of saint Agostino, The Adoration of shepherds, Crucifixion, The lamentation on Christ, The coronation  of thorns, Rinaldo and Armida, Federico Eurico of Orange, Amarilli and Mirtillo, Triple  portraits by Charles I, Charles I to horse, The three sons majors of Charles I, The fifth sons of Charles I , The self portraits with sunflower, Carlo Ludovico and Rubert the  Palatines princes, The Love and Psyche….

In passage of art he is the paintre of court for the archduchess Isabella of Hapsburg regent of Holland , to that he painting a portrait , received in change a necklace of gold. He died into house of Blackfriars , to London in 9th  December 1641 , his burial is make into Cathedral of Saint Paul . His life comes assimilated to Raffaello , together young dies the first to look the atrocity of Sacco of Rome and the disorders from civil war. The aristocratic in tastes , aristocratic in style of life, aristocratic in cloths, Antoon van Dyck love the principles , the aristocracy, but not love the classic world . The real court and his lightness, he amplifies  the refinement , until to originality. Always innovative , from portraits to intern figure , at double, triple portraits arriving to portraits of groups . The brush strokes are sweets , the lines are distinct and perfectionists. The Italy is love with Tiziano , his painting is a kind of inspiration good studied again preferred, but not forget  never his master , mentor  and friend Rubens. The elegance , the label of court, is the aristocratic world known from Rubens. Flamingo learned to live in Great Britain , honored, appreciated, but the end he remains loyal to Catholicism , to his Flanders , meditating in religious themes . We need know the aristocratic taste , human nobility, the elegance and refinement of Antoon van Dyck.