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Date : approx. between 1520 and 1530
Material : Oil painting on wood
Acquisition : Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Fund (1975)
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European Painting
Painting
Area related
Neitherlands
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By the early sixteenth century, Antwerp was a center for Europe's luxury trade, attracting many artists, including Joos Van Cleve. Responding to an international clientele, Joos adapted the ideal forms of the Italian Renaissance to a northern European context. Here he took the poses and modeling of the intertwined children from Leonardo da Vinci, placing them in the flamboyant architecture of the Renaissance in northern Europe. The many surviving versions of this composition attest to its popularity. This version is unique in being personalized with the arms of its owner, Pompejus Occo (1483 - 1537), the Amsterdam representative of the powerful German banking firm of Fugger.
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