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Laer, Pieter van Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
..., Pieter van ( bapt . Haarlem, 14 Dec. 1599 ; d ? c. 1642 ). Dutch painter, active for much of his career ( c. 1625–38 ) in Rome. There he was nicknamed Il Bamboccio (which may be translated as ‘little clumsy one’ or ‘rag doll’) because he was crippled or deformed in some way. His self-portrait in the Pallavicini Gallery in Rome ( c. 1625–30 ) suggests that he bore his handicap with good humour, and he was one of the leaders of the Schildersbent , a fraternal organization set up by the Netherlandish artists in Rome to protect their interests. Van Laer ...
Laer, Pieter van (1599–1642?) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Western Art
..., Pieter van ( Il Bamboccio ) ( 1599–1642? ). Dutch painter and printmaker. He was mainly active in Rome, where he arrived c. 1625–8 and became the leader of the Schildersbent , a bacchanalian fraternity of Netherlandish artists living in the city. He specialized in painting scenes of everyday life, with soldiers, travellers, brigands, and herdsmen, but often set, perhaps as a form of poetic paradox, against the ruins of ancient Rome ( The Blacksmith in a Grotto , 1635 ; Schwerin, Staat-Mus.) This new type of low-life genre painting became known as ...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (5 ed.)
..., Pieter van ( bapt. Haarlem , 14 Dec. 1599 ; d ? c .1642 ). Dutch painter , active for much of his career ( c. 1625–38 ) in Rome. There he was nicknamed ‘Il Bamboccio’ (which may be translated as ‘little clumsy one’ or ‘rag doll’), as he was crippled or deformed in some way. His self-portrait in the Pallavicini Gallery in Rome suggests that he bore his handicap with good humour, and he was one of the leaders of the Schildersbent , a fraternal organization set up by the Netherlandish artists in Rome to protect their interests. Van Laer was the...
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Nicolaes Berchem
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Schildersbent
Michelangelo Cerquozzi
Rome, Spada Gallery
Joachim von Sandrart
Sébastien Bourdon
Michiel Sweerts
Jan Asselyn
Jacques Courtois
Philips Wouwerman
Claude glass
Claude Lorrain
Bamboccianti Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
...A group of painters in 17th-century Rome who worked in the style of Pieter van Laer ( il Bamboccio or ‘clumsy little one’) from whom the name derives. They specialized in bambocciate (the singular is bambocciata or ‘childishness’), small genre scenes of everyday Italian life. Most of the artists in the group were of north European origin, though there were also some Italians such as Michelangelo Cerquozzi . Van Laer returned to his native Haarlem in 1639 . See Schildersbent...
Cerquozzi, Michelangelo Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of Art (3 ed.)
... 18 Feb. 1602 ; d Rome, 6 Apr. 1660 ). Italian painter, known as ‘Michelangelo of the Battles’ because of his predilection for scenes of combat. He spent all his career in Rome, where he had considerable contact with northern painters; his friendship with the Dutchman Pieter van Laer led to his becoming the leading Italian exponent of bambocciate (small pictures of low-life and peasant...
Schildersbent Quick reference
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
...(Dutch, ‘band of painters’) A fraternal organization set up by the Netherlandish painters in Rome in 1623 to protect their interests. Its members called themselves Bentvueghels or ‘birds of a feather’ and they had individual Bentnames , for example Pieter van Laer was called il Bamboccio , ‘clumsy little one’. The Bent was dissolved and prohibited by papal decree in 1720 on account of its rowdiness and drunkenness. See bamboccianti...
