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DOI Artikel:Benesz, Hanna: Daniel and King Cyrus in front of Baal: a late Rudolfine and late Humanist painting by Bartholomäus Strobel from the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18940#0079
3. Adriaen de Vries, Sleeping Guard, a figurę from the tomb of Prince Ernst von Schaumburg.
Lippe, Stadthagen, Martinskirche (Photo after reproduction)
namentation (Figs 7, 8, 9). The same types of delicate feminine faces and the erotic motif of
naked breasts recur in the Prado, Warsaw and Miinchengratz paintings. The king Cyrus and
the king Herodes from Prado share almost identical characteristic headdresses, beards, features
and a countenance of a somewhat fearful astonishment (Figs 10, 11). A priest standing in the
shadows in the middle distance of the Daniel andBaal painting bears a striking likeness to a>,Dan-
tean" profile of the two central personages around the king Herodes and to king David's right-
side companion in the Bohemian painting. The drawing of the ornaments in the Baal baldachin
and in the tapestry behind king Herodes are almost identical.
A specific mark of Strobel's,,handwriting" in the Warsaw, Poznań, and Miinchengratz pain-
tings is the rendering of the hands. Smali and fine almost like a child's, opening in similai gesti-
culation in the figures of Daniel, of Stephen in the Poznań painting and of the lady with her
pet-dog in Miinchengratz, underscore the author's style.
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Lippe, Stadthagen, Martinskirche (Photo after reproduction)
namentation (Figs 7, 8, 9). The same types of delicate feminine faces and the erotic motif of
naked breasts recur in the Prado, Warsaw and Miinchengratz paintings. The king Cyrus and
the king Herodes from Prado share almost identical characteristic headdresses, beards, features
and a countenance of a somewhat fearful astonishment (Figs 10, 11). A priest standing in the
shadows in the middle distance of the Daniel andBaal painting bears a striking likeness to a>,Dan-
tean" profile of the two central personages around the king Herodes and to king David's right-
side companion in the Bohemian painting. The drawing of the ornaments in the Baal baldachin
and in the tapestry behind king Herodes are almost identical.
A specific mark of Strobel's,,handwriting" in the Warsaw, Poznań, and Miinchengratz pain-
tings is the rendering of the hands. Smali and fine almost like a child's, opening in similai gesti-
culation in the figures of Daniel, of Stephen in the Poznań painting and of the lady with her
pet-dog in Miinchengratz, underscore the author's style.
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