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Terbrugghen
/ ˈtøbruˌɡən /
noun
- TerbrugghenHendrik15881629MDutchARTS AND CRAFTS: painter Hendrik. 1588–1629, Dutch painter of the Utrecht school, who specialized in religious subjects, for example the Incredulity of St Thomas and the Calling of St Matthew
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Before 1900,Terbrugghen was known by little more than his signature.
Their baroque realism, their tickling highlights, merry laughter and moralizing mien have established Terbrugghen as a forerunner of Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt.
Terbrugghen did his requisite of martyrs and evangelists, but it is his fleshly sinners that were his daily bread.
Today most painters of that period are forgotten, but occasionally an unfamiliar name such as Hendrick Terbrugghen establishes a new reputation more than three centuries after his death.
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