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Article: Show illuminates Dutch painters' rich use of light.(Arts)(Art)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 11, 1998
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BALTIMORE - Hendrick Ter Brugghen's "Saint Sebastian Attended by Saint Irene" shows the early Christian martyr collapsing to the ground, filled with arrows, folding in on himself and into a dramatically swirled diagonal of fabric and limbs.
One of many intensely moving paintings in the Walters Art Gallery exhibit "Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht During the Golden Age," it sums up both the message of the 17th-century Dutch Counter-Reformation and the way these artists used light. This unique and handsome show opens today and runs through March 8.
The 17th century could be called Europe's age of light, with its roots in the art of the ...