India

Henricus Hondius

About 1705

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In a mountainous landscape, stone stairs rise along the lower left of the composition. A figure walks two cows up the stairs, and four figures gather together higher up the stairs in the shade.
Adam van Noort was a history painter from Antwerp and a teacher of Rubens. He is seen here in portrait from the waist up, looking out to the proper right. He wears a wide frilled collar with a long cloak that he gathers at his stomach with his left hand. He stands against a brick colomn. This is from the Gillis Hendricx edition of the Iconography (Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum, Pictorum Chalcographorum Statuorum nec non Amatorum Pictoriae Artis Numero Centum), 1632-44.
Head of Lust, Auguste Rodin, cast bronze
From an elevated perspective, likely looking out of a window on an upper floor, view along a street adjacent to one of Amsterdam's canals. A barge on the water. Pedestrians and bicyclists, as well, as a car are moving on the street. The sun is reflecting off the cobblestone and water.