- contrasts, or a
peculiar color scheme.
Tronies conve****
different meanings and
values to
their viewers.
Tronies embodied abstract notions such as transience...
-
rural settings.
Brouwer contributed to the
development of the
genre of
tronies, i.e. head or
facial studies,
which investigate varieties of expression...
- expression.
Tronies are thus a form of
genre painting in a
portrait format. Van
Craesbeeck was a
talented practitioner of this genre. Many of his
tronies are...
-
remarkable images of the group. The
etchings are
mostly informal,
often playful tronies,
studies of
extreme facial expressions or
portraits in what
amounts to...
- period, who is
known for his
allegorical and
genre paintings,
portraits and
tronies. The
artist led an
itinerant life and
worked in Rome, Brussels, Amsterdam...
-
countries over the centuries.
Originally it may have been one of the two
tronies "painted in the
Turkish fashion" (Twee
tronijnen geschildert op sijn Turx)...
- married-couple, family, and institutional-group portraits. He also
painted tronies for the
general market.
There were two
quite distinct schools of portraiture...
-
language and
physical appearances,
these portraits parallel the
vivacious tronies of
Dutch Golden Age
painting and the "character heads" of contemporary...
- and jewelry).
Religious and
allegorical subjects were favored, as were
tronies. In 1626
Rembrandt produced his
first etchings, the wide dissemination...
-
Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is seen as one of a
number of Vermeer's
tronies –
depictions of
models fancifully dressed that were not (as far as is known)...
