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Article: Elsheimer and Velazquez in London.(Adam Elsheimer and Diego Velazquez)
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- Contemporary Review
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- December 22, 2006
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ONLY once in four centuries have almost all the paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578?-1610) been shown together. The exhibition travelled from Frankfurt am Main to Edinburgh before finally alighting at the Dulwich Gallery, in South London (20 September-3 December 2006). There are some 30 individual pictures and polyptychs in all: a fair achievement for sixteen years of activity, one may suppose, since he painted in exacting detail on a small scale. Why then did his friend, the prolific Rubens, describe him as lethargic in one of his letters of 1611? Would Rubens's regretful comment have been more justified if Elsheimer's period of activity had been, as we shall see was ...
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