1829-1912 Related Paintings of william r clark :. | hundsladarna ar ett snabbt och e ffektivt transportmedel over isvidderna | livingstone betraktade sig sjalv som i forsta hand missionar,men han var anda en av de storsta forskningsranena i afrika | polarfrskning under det tidiga 1800 taler | nordenskiolds fartyg vega ger salut,da det rundar asiens nordligaste udde kap tjeljuskin i augusti 1878 | barth kallade staden kano for central afrikas stora knutpunkt | Related Artists:
morris hirshfieldREYMERSWALE, Marinus vanFlemish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1490-1567
TORRENTIUS, JohannesDutch painter (b. 1589, Amsterdam, d. 1644, Amsterdam).
Dutch painter. He was active in Amsterdam, Leiden and Haarlem. In Haarlem in 1627 he was condemned, after severe torture, to 20 years of imprisonment for impiety, blasphemy and his membership of the outlawed Society of Rosicrucians. After having been notified by Sir Dudley Carleton, the British ambassador in The Hague, Charles I of England intervened and brought about Torrentius's release in 1629. Torrentius was subsequently active from 1629 to 1632 in London, which he nevertheless had to leave, again on account of his purportedly immoral mode of life; he returned to Amsterdam. There he was again involved in a trial and died after suffering torture in 1644. His erotic pictures, some of which depicted masterful nudes in mythological settings and are now known only through literary sources, were publicly burnt. A few still-lifes (e.g. Emblematic Still-life, 1614; Amsterdam, Rijksmus.) have survived. These carefully composed works, mostly set before a dark background, recall the work of Jan van de Velde II and the circle of Willem Claesz. Heda.
