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Brueghel, Jan, the elder (1568-1625)

Steenwijck, Hendrick van, the elder (ca. 1550-1603)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1586

Height:

32.0 cm  (12 5/8 in.)

Width:

42.0 cm  (16 9/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Additional titles

Description

Interior view of Antwerp Cathedral showing an organ on the left side.
According to the information of the Pincacoteca Ambrosiana the woman, “recognizable in front of the central column, is Catarina, Jan's second wife,” while the two children are from Jan’s first marriage (Paschasia and Jan the Younger). Finally, the interior does – according to some scholars – not represent the interior of Antwerp cathedral “but of an undefined Gothic church;” it was executed “by Henrick van Steenwijck, an artist specialized in this genre.” (Marco Navoni, and Alberto Rocca. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan: Skira, 2023), p. 122).

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Organ [2266]

RIdIM images

Bibliographic references

Marco Navoni, and Alberto Rocca. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan: Skira, 2023) 123.

Pamela M. Jones. Federico Borromeo and the Ambrosiana: Art Patronage and Reform in Seventeenth-Century Milan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).

RIdIM record id

9868