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A Visual Journey into the Bible Page: 10 God glorifying and warming in this radiance. Light was good for God and for Gaetano Previati. God created light and light made paintings possible. Other paintings: The Creation of the World Ivan Aïvazovski (1817-1900). The Russian Museum. St Petersburg. Russia. 1864. Copyright ©: René Dewil Date: October, 24 2000
A Visual Journey into the Bible Page: 11 Eden The Garden of Eden Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625). Ca. 1620. The Victoria and Albert Museum – London. At the time when God made heaven and earth, no wild bush nor wild plant had sprung for God had not yet sent rain or any man to till the soil. Water flowed out of the ground and from there watered the surface. Then God shaped man from the soil and blew the breath of live into him. G38. God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had fashioned. God caused to grow every kind of tree, beautiful and good to eat, and in the middle of the garden he grew the tree of knowledge of good and evil. A river flowed from Eden to water the garden and that river divided to make four streams called the Pishon, the Gihon, the Tigris and the Euphrates. Thus tells the story of the creation of the Garden of Eden, the story of the creation of all the animals and of man and woman. Every race seems to have origin stories and these are ours. No painter has brought these images better on the canvas than Jan Brueghel the Elder, an artist born in Brabant Brussels, who lived around the change of the sixteenth into the seventeenth century. Jan Brueghel was a northern landscape and flower painter. He formed the transition between the late Gothic and Renaissance Flemish painters and the new, flamboyant Baroque art of the great Antwerp masters Rubens and van Dyck. He was one link in a chain of a tradition that had started a hundred years earlier; a tradition that had not it’s equal in the brilliant Italian Renaissance. Jan Brueghel was a member of a very famous family of genius artists of Brabant in Belgium. Jan’s father was Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1528/1530-1569), called the Peasant- Bruegel for the many pictures he painted of the life and feasts of the Brabant villages around Brussels. Pieter’s name was not then pronounced as today, the letter ‘e’ merely indicating a longer pronunciation of the ‘u’. Pieter Bruegel was the most original and powerful artist of the family and Brabant’s most important artist of the sixteenth century. He married a painter’s daughter, Mayken, the daughter of his master Pieter Coecke van Aalst. Aalst is a small town also near Brussels and Pieter Coecke was married to a lady who was equally a painter, a miniaturist. It must have been the joining of these artistic genes that founded subsequent generations of artists. Two sons of Pieter Bruegel were also painters. Pieter Brueghel II the Younger (1564- 1638) was also a gifted artist. He was taught by Maria Verhulst Bessemer, his grandmother, and introduced by her in the art of miniature painting. The Italians because of his production of fire-red images of hell called this Pieter the ‘Hell Brueghel’ or ‘Pieter degli Inferni’. His brother, Jan Brueghel I the Elder, painted many pictures of paradise so that he was famous for exactly the opposite themes of his brother, even though he would occasionally work together with his brother, also on pictures of the hell. Do many families also not have a dark and a bright side, Copyright ©: René Dewil Date: October, 24 2000
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