DOI issue:
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DOI article:Slatkes, Leonard J.: Bringing Ter Brugghen and Baburen up-to-date
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18945#0224
boy blowingfon] a fire” was described.58 His discovery added a new dimension
to our understanding of the theme and helped explain why it was so popular
in Rome, Utrecht and elsewhere. Ter Brugghen, however, seems also to have
had something of Athenaeus’s tale of Pallas Athena in the back of his mind -
although this time without the musical instrument - by rendering his girl with
cheeks that are humorously distorted by her efforts to light a candle from the
firebrand upon which she so vigorously blows. Gudlaugsson, who first
J. Bialostocki, “Puer sufflans ignes,” Arte in Europa: scritti di storia dell’arte in onore di Eduardo
Arslan, 1, Milan 1966, pp.591-595.
10. Hendrick ter Brugghen,
Mocking Luteplayer, 1624,
canvas, 101.5x84.8 cm,
present location unknown
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to our understanding of the theme and helped explain why it was so popular
in Rome, Utrecht and elsewhere. Ter Brugghen, however, seems also to have
had something of Athenaeus’s tale of Pallas Athena in the back of his mind -
although this time without the musical instrument - by rendering his girl with
cheeks that are humorously distorted by her efforts to light a candle from the
firebrand upon which she so vigorously blows. Gudlaugsson, who first
J. Bialostocki, “Puer sufflans ignes,” Arte in Europa: scritti di storia dell’arte in onore di Eduardo
Arslan, 1, Milan 1966, pp.591-595.
10. Hendrick ter Brugghen,
Mocking Luteplayer, 1624,
canvas, 101.5x84.8 cm,
present location unknown
214