by Jon Lackman | 23 April 2009 | Baroque/Neoclassical, Museums
For a few years in the 1620s, Utrecht (among other places) saw the flourishing of painting in the manner of Caravaggio. The Utrecht Caravaggisti, including Hendrick Terbruggen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen, who used the style for scenes of earthy Dutch tavern life, are the subject of a show organized by Jochen Sander at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, following recent shows in London and Berlin. This one concentrates on a perennially appealing theme: portraiture of musicians. Reviews are in the Tagesspiegel, Frankfurter Rundschau (“awakens the Sherlock Holmes within”), and the FAZ (“the exuberant, often frivolous pictures must have been especially popular in Calvinist Holland”).
