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Mystic Box
Studio of Godfried Schalcken1670 - 1700
Brukenthal National Museum
Sibiu, Romania
The painting was purchased by Baron Samuel von Brukenthal namely paternity without being absorbed only as a painting from the Lower Countries. The painting appears to be related to the idea of ephemeral pleasures of life (vita Luxuria), which kills the soul, represented by the bird crushed the cassette cover, with an obvious emphasis, in the case of the work from Sibiu the idea that prostitution or debauchery, in general, is a spiritual death.
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- Title: Mystic Box
- Creator: Studio of Godfried Schalcken
- Date: 1670 - 1700
- Physical Location: Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania
- Physical Dimensions: w47 x h54 cm (Without frame)
- Artist Biography: Godfried Schalcken was born in Made, North Brabant as the son of Cornelis Schalcken and Aletta Lydius. Schalcke studied under Samuel van Hoogstraten in Dordrecht before he moved to Leiden, into the studio of Gerard Dou (1613–1675), one of Rembrandt's most famous pupils. His earlier genre pictures very closely resemble Dou's work. He worked in Leiden until c. 1675, then returning to Dordrecht until 1691, after which he settled in The Hague, where he continued to paint until his death, near age 63, in 1706. He also visited England (1692–1697), but his uncouth manners and bad temper alienated him from the society there. In 1703 he was employed by Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine in Düsseldorf. He died in The Hague.
- Provenance: Brukenthal National Museum
- Type: painting
- Medium: oil on canvas
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