Carel fabritius paintings of nature

Carel Pietersz. He was a pupil of Rembrandt and worked in his studio in Amsterdam. Fabritius, who was a member of the Delft School , developed his own artistic style and experimented with perspective and lighting.

Carel fabritius facts

Fabritius was born in February in Middenbeemster , a village in the ten-year-old Beemster polder in the Dutch Republic , and was baptized on 27 February of that year. Initially he worked as a carpenter Latin: fabritius. In he married Aeltge Velthuys, who died in childbirth in In he married the widow Agatha van Pruyssen. Fabritius died young, caught in the explosion of the Delft gunpowder magazine on 12 October , which destroyed a quarter of the city, along with his studio and many of his paintings.

Only about a dozen paintings have survived. In a poem written by Arnold Bon to his memory, he is called Karel Faber. Of all Rembrandt's pupils, Fabritius was the only one to develop his own artistic style. A typical Rembrandt portrait would have a plain dark background with the subject defined by spotlighting. In contrast, Fabritius' portraits feature delicately lit subjects against light-coloured, textured backgrounds.

Moving away from the Renaissance focus on iconography , Fabritius became interested in the technical aspects of painting. He used cool colour harmonies to create shape in a luminous style of painting. Fabritius was also interested in complex spatial effects, as can be seen in the exaggerated perspective of A View of Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller's Stall He also showed excellent control of a heavily loaded brush, as in The Goldfinch