Gerardus duyckinck biography examples

Colonial America was a world with meager access to the visual arts. However, the occasional arrival of imported illustrated bibles provided colonists and aspiring colonial artists alike with access to the pictorial traditions of Europe, thereby gradually enriching colonial artistic resources while nurturing religious imaginations.

Illustrated bibles came from many countries and in a variety of formats. They displayed different artistic styles and cultural traditions, and their illustrations ranged from vernacular, naturalistic imagery to the dramatic, sophisticated art of the Grand Manner.

Section One, painting labels:

Gerardus Duyckinck (1695-1746), The Woman Taken in Adultery, c.

1725-1730.

Gerardus duyckinck biography examples

Oil on canvas; 41 1/2" x 50 1/2". Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift of the Estate of Edgar W. & Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, 1980.

Gerardus Duyckinck was a third generation member of a family of Dutch artisans active in New York.

His Woman Taken in Adultery is an