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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#0080
4. Bartholomaus Strobel, Daniel and King Cyrus in front of Baal, detail (the Baal statuę)
Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
The symbolic feminine figurę (Fig. 12) in the bottom right corner of the Warsaw composition
finds an interesting analogy in the Poznań picture and in a signed and dated Strobel drawing
from 1638 (Fig. 13). In the picture The Marlyrdom of Saint Stephen we see a duo of masculine
figures — a young gentleman and his tutor — placed in the bottom right corner who point
with outstretched arms to the main scenę, as does the young lady with an exposed breast, dressed
in a rich garment in the Warsaw painting. This woman shows an outstanding kinship with an
allegorical figurę from Strobel's drawing from the album, the Stammbuch, very much in fashion
among artists and humanists of that time, which belonged to Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau,
an emigrant Silesian poet in Gdańsk12. In both we recognize the comparable pose, facial features
and the fluently draped folds of clothcs. Such „introducing" persons are quite characteristic
in StrobeFs oeuvre. In the Prado painting this role is played by the centrally placed officer in
a black hat, holding a trumpet, who looks intensely at the viewer. They all seem to open the
12. Such albums contained usually yersefi and drawings by bcfriendcd artists; the mentioncd drawin g was in the Municipa 1
Library in Wrocław, now lpst; illustration after E. Iwanoyko, op. cii., Fig. 36.
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Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
The symbolic feminine figurę (Fig. 12) in the bottom right corner of the Warsaw composition
finds an interesting analogy in the Poznań picture and in a signed and dated Strobel drawing
from 1638 (Fig. 13). In the picture The Marlyrdom of Saint Stephen we see a duo of masculine
figures — a young gentleman and his tutor — placed in the bottom right corner who point
with outstretched arms to the main scenę, as does the young lady with an exposed breast, dressed
in a rich garment in the Warsaw painting. This woman shows an outstanding kinship with an
allegorical figurę from Strobel's drawing from the album, the Stammbuch, very much in fashion
among artists and humanists of that time, which belonged to Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau,
an emigrant Silesian poet in Gdańsk12. In both we recognize the comparable pose, facial features
and the fluently draped folds of clothcs. Such „introducing" persons are quite characteristic
in StrobeFs oeuvre. In the Prado painting this role is played by the centrally placed officer in
a black hat, holding a trumpet, who looks intensely at the viewer. They all seem to open the
12. Such albums contained usually yersefi and drawings by bcfriendcd artists; the mentioncd drawin g was in the Municipa 1
Library in Wrocław, now lpst; illustration after E. Iwanoyko, op. cii., Fig. 36.
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