A triple feature: Andries Pels’s weaponization of Rembrandt to gut his fellow playwrights; a possible source for the phrase Nil Volentibus Arduum; and praise for a new book on Dirck van Hoogstraten.
Tag: Samuel van Hoogstraten
349 The difference between Frans Post and Hercules Seghers
The print room of the Rijksmuseum mounted magnificent exhibitions on two very different Dutch landscape artists, the portrayer of Brazil Frans Post and the traveler in his own imagination Hercules Segers. The juxtaposition brings Schwartz to compare them; he finds out that they both came to the same sorry end. Continue reading “349 The difference between Frans Post and Hercules Seghers”