Christ carrying the Cross (1562) by Joachim BeuckelaerThe National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
'This is an early period work by the 16th-century Flemish painter Beuckelaer.'
Woman Selling Vegetables by Joachim Beuckelaer (Antwerp 1533 – 1575)Rockoxhuis
'Together with his uncle, the Amsterdam painter Pieter Aertsen (Amsterdam 1508--1575), he was an initiator of the independent market and still-life themes in painting.'
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes (Front)The J. Paul Getty Museum
'Joachim Beuckelaer specialized in combining genre subjects with religious scenes. In The Miraculous Draught of Fishes, he contrasted the spiritual world of the Bible with the materialism of the contemporary world.'
'Beuckelaer also organized the picture by dividing it in half: a diagonal line begins from the leaning tree in the top left corner and continues down, with the Gibeonites ranged on one side and the Israelites on the other.'
The Four Elements: Water (1569) by Joachim BeuckelaerThe National Gallery, London
'The direct gaze of the stall holders is particularly striking, as is Beuckelaer's use of steep perspective framing the street vista to the left.'
The Four Elements: Fire (1570) by Joachim BeuckelaerThe National Gallery, London
'Fire is one of Beuckelaer's most ambitious works, combining the still life of haunches of meat and poultry being prepared for cooking on the fire beyond with a dramatic use of perspective constructions involving multiple vanishing points.'
