ELSHEIMER, ADAM

äˈdäm ĕlsˈhīmər, 1578–1610?, German painter. After studying in Frankfurt, Munich, and Venice, he settled in Rome and worked for Pope Paul V. He painted small pictures on copper. They were chiefly of biblical and mythological subjects with landscape backgrounds, which he executed with minute precision. He had numerous students (including Pieter Lastman, who was the teacher of Rembrandt) and is thought to have had a considerable influence on Dutch landscape painting. Elsheimer was particularly successful in rendering light effects. His Good Samaritan is in the Louvre. Tobias and Coronis are both in the National Gallery in London.

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Painting of the Golden Age: A Biographical Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century European Painters
Book by Adelheid M. Gealt; Greenwood Press, 1993
Subjects: Painters--Europe--Biography--Dictionaries, Painting, Modern--17th-18th Centuries--Europe--Dictionaries
...Schuler , 1983; Sutton 1982; Sutton 1984; Sutton 1987. ELSHEIMER, Adam Frankfurt 1578-Rome 1610 , German. Together with the Carracci * and Caravaggio, * Adam Elsheimer is one of those transitional and seminal figures whose...
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The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Book by David Rundle; Westview Press, 1999
Subjects: Renaissance--Encyclopedias
...celebrate the succession of the new king, James I. Elsheimer, Adam 1578-1610 German painter and etcher. He was active...the Flight into Egypt 1609 Alte Pinakothek, Munich . Elsheimer studied at Frankfurt under a minor landscape artist...
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Encyclopedia of Painting: Painters and Painting of the World from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day
Book by Bernard S. Myers; Crown Publishers, 1979
Subjects: Painters--Biography, Painting--Dictionaries
...Marcel Duchamp at the Independents Show in 1917 and ELSHEIMER. Tobias and the Angel National Gallery, London given...the few full-lengths that he did were inferior. Elsheimer, Adam 1578-1610 . German painter of figure subjects and...
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Landscape Painting
Book by Kenneth Clark; Charles Scribners Sons, 1950
Subjects: Landscape Painting
...33 Eadwines psalter, 2 - 3 Egremont, Lord, 103 Elsheimer, Adam, 51 -2, 61 Entombment Carracci , 61 Entrance to...9 Flight into Fgypt Carracci , 61 Flight into Egypt Elsheimer , 52 Flight into Egypt Fabriano , 15 Flight into Egypt...
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Praeger Picture Encyclopedia of Art: A Comprehensive Survey of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and Crafts, Their Methods, Styles and Technical Terms, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day
Book by Frederick A. Praeger; F.A. Praeger, 1958
Subjects: Art--Dictionaries, Art--History
...towers, conforms admirably with the ground plan. ELSHEIMER, ADAM 1578-1610 , was born in Frankfurt, and went to Rome...merge with the landscape to form a perfect unity. Elsheimer was highly esteemed by his friend Rubens and by Claude...
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Scrambling for Scudi: Notes on Painters' Earnings in Early Baroque Rome
Journal article by Richard E. Spear; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 85, 2003
Subjects: Art history, Painting, Rome Italy, Valuation, Visual artists
...Sassia.35 In 1609, Adam Elsheimer signed a lease for lodgings...was handsomely paid), Adam Elsheimer was downright poor by...1611, shortly after Elsheimer died in Rome, Rubens...God will forgive Signor Adam his sin of sloth...
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Visualizing Appearance and Disappearance: on Caravaggio's London Supper at Emmaus
Journal article by Lorenzo Pericolo; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 89, 2007
Subjects: Art criticism, Christianity, Renaissance period, Symbolism
...17 An engraving by Hendrik Goudt after a painting by Adam Elsheimer, Jupiter and Mercury in the House of Philemon and Baucis...from a Roman antique, the Farnese Jupiter.19 Unlike Elsheimer, Rembrandt put the source of light, a candle on the...
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Annual Bibliography of Works about Life Writing, 2005-2006: Edited Volumes, Collections, Special Issues, and Biographical Dictionaries
Journal article by Phyllis E. Wachter; Biography, Vol. 29, 2006
Subjects: Biographies--Bibliography, Biography--Bibliography
...Narrative, Memory and the Crisis of Mimesis: The Case of Adam Elsheimer and Giordano Bruno." 84-96. Shows how Brunos art...constructions of Paris in Ernest Hemingways A Moveable Feast and Adam Gopniks Paris to the Moon. Kolosov, Jacqueline. "In...
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La Renaissance et la Nuit
Journal article by William J. Kennedy; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, La Renaissance et la nuit (Book)--Book reviews
...entertainments in the reign of Frances Charles IX; to the painterly arts of Antoine Caron, Georges de La Tour, and Adam Elsheimer which depict crepuscular realism; and to collections of popular tales deigned to be read at evening firesides, such...
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The End of Caravaggio
Journal article by Sheila McTighe; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 88, 2006
Subjects: Art exhibits, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio) (1573-1610), Visual artists
...evidently, both sources of the image could yield the same degree of realism; later biographies of artists such as Adam Elsheimer and Pieter van Laer stressed that they created naturalistic works from vivid visual memories. Caravaggio seems to...
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Elsheimer and Velazquez in London
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 288, Winter 2006
Subjects: Elsheimer, Adam--Exhibitions, German painters--Exhibitions, Painters, German--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions, Velazquez, Diego (Spanish painter)--Exhibitions
Elsheimer and Velazquez in London. by Donald...centuries have almost all the paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578?-1610) been shown together...accuracy and, according to Sandrart, Adam Elsheimer was born four years before his baptism...
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Rome Sweet Rome
Magazine article by Tom Rosenthal; New Statesman, Vol. 130, February 5, 2001
Subjects: Merisi, Michelangelo--Exhibitions, Painting--Exhibitions
...Theodor Rombouts, Gerrit van Honthorst, Domenichino, Adam Elsheimer, three Carraccis, two Gentileschis, Paul Bril...paintings of Judith and Holofernes by Caravaggio (1599), Adam Elsheimer (1601-03, once owned by Rubens and now in the V...
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Round and About: September 2006
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 56, September 2006
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Collections and collecting, Art exhibitions--Directories, Art--Collections and collecting, Art--Directories, Art--Exhibitions
...for Dunecht House, Aberdeenshire, in 1910-22. Adam Elsheimer: Devil in the Detail September 20th--December 3rd...dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk A chance to view the paintings of Adam Elsheimer, the German miniaturist (1578-1610) who had a...
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Dutch Italianisers at Dulwich
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 281, August 2002
Subjects: Italy--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Landscape painting--Exhibitions, Painting, Dutch--Exhibitions
...northerners who had also been drawn to Italy: Elsheimer from Frankfurt, Claude from the French...as in The Ford (Vienna Akademie). Adam Pijnaker shared Asselijns taste for the...Asselijn, Jan Both, Claes Berchem and Adam Pijnaker painted their most enchanted...
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Cranach at the Royal Academy
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 290, Summer 2008
Subjects: Artists, German--Criticism and interpretation, Artists, German--Works, Cranach, Lucas--Criticism and interpretation, Cranach, Lucas--Works, German artists--Criticism and interpretation, German artists--Works
...Main, which also originated the 2006 Elsheimer exhibitions in Edinburgh and Dulwich...Against a background of stark shadows, Adam throws his hands wide in despair, and...Microcosmographie of 1628) the best copie of Adam before he tasted of Eve or the apple...
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Genius through a Magnifying Glass; Adam Elsheimer Painted Very Small Pictures and Died When He Was 32 but, as the New Exhibition at the Dulwich Gallery Will Show, His Influence Was Felt throughout Europe
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 1, 2006
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions, Optical instruments--Exhibitions
...Genius through a Magnifying Glass; Adam Elsheimer Painted Very Small Pictures and...library a book published in 1977, Adam Elsheimer, by Keith Andrews. The latter...20 September until 3 December. Adam Elsheimer, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery...
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A Year of Old Masters and Young Pretenders; It May Take a While to Get Going, but 2006 Promises Major Exhibitions of Michelangelo, Ruisdael and Velazquez
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 6, 2006
Subjects: Exhibitions
...as Rebel and Martyr (National Gallery) in June, Adam Elsheimer (Dulwich) in September and Vel*zquez (National...and Martyr. National Gallery. Until 28 August. 28 Adam Elsheimer. Dulwich Picture Gallery. Until 3 December. 18 Velazquez...
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The Man Who Put Everyone in the Picture
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 3, 2006
...Teniers, then should we question the authenticity of Veroneses Adam and Eve after the Expulsion, Schiavones Aeneas fleeing Troy...the knee were in high fashion - witness the enthusiasm for Elsheimer; how long they stayed together we do not know, but by the...


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Elsheimer, Adam
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ELSHEIMER, ADAM a dam els him r, 1578 1610?, German painter. After studying in Frankfurt...thought to have had a considerable influence on Dutch landscape painting. Elsheimer was particularly successful in rendering light effects. His Good Samaritan...


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