GEORG KOLBE

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Georg Kolbe (1877-1947).

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TASTES CHANGE

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John Hoppner’s Portrait of the Franklin Sisters (circa 1795)

While the Impressionists were languishing in poverty in the 1870s, a host of other artists—academic painters, aristocratic portraitists, members of the Barbizon school, and genre painters—were hungrily snapped up by the self-assured connoisseurs of the day.

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Ludwig Knaus’s Mud Pies (1873)

Work by some of these original market darlings did end up in major museums (perhaps unsurprisingly, considering the financial caliber of their patrons), but none is a household name today.

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SUSANNA AND THE ELDERS

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A fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the garden unless she agrees to have sex with them.

She refuses to be blackmailed and is arrested and about to be put to death for promiscuity when a young man named Daniel interrupts the proceedings, shouting that the elders should be questioned to prevent the death of an innocent. After being separated, the two men are cross-examined about details of what they saw but disagree about the tree under which Susanna supposedly met her lover. The first says they were under a mastic; the second says they were under an evergreen oak tree. The great difference in size between a mastic and an oak makes the elders’ lie plain to all the observers. The false accusers are put to death, and virtue triumphs.

(Book of Daniel, chapter 13).

At the photos below, Suzanna and the Elders depicted by:

Rembrandt (1606-1669)

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Guido Reni (1575-1642)

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Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

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Georg Pencz (1500-1550)

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Guido Cagnacci (1601-1663)

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Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617)

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Pieter Pietersz (1540-1603)

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Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619)

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Pietro della Vecchia (1603-1678)

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Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)

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Tintoretto (c.1518-1594)

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Paolo Veronese (1528-1588)

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Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari (1654-1727)

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Massimo Stanzione (1585-1656)

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Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678)

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