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| Keywords: The Four Evangelists (Abraham Bloemaert).jpg Artwork Creator Abraham Bloemaert De Vier Evangelisten The w four evangelists traditionally appeared alone but in 1526 Albrecht Dürer showed The Four Apostles two groups of two evangelists and about 1566 Frans Floris showed all four together Other artists followed suit Bloemaert ™s student Hendrick Terbruggen 1588 “1629 and Peter Paul Rubens prolonged the theme but it disappeared after 1621 Here the Utrecht painter attempts to unify the evangelists and their symbols in a logical horizontal composition Luke the Evangelist Luke with his ox Mark the Evangelist Mark with his lion John the Evangelist John with his eagle and Matthew the Apostle Matthew with his angel are gathered around a table each figure intently writing his Gospel Mark ™s lion peeks out from underneath a heavy carpet Bloemaert boldly poses Matthew with his back toward the viewer perhaps to convey an impression of an uncontrived gathering of figures in a realistic setting The scene is set in a shallow space but the vibrant coloring of the figures the angularity of their poses and the frontal lighting give the composition a feeling of depth Various naturally observed details stand out such as the broken rush seat of Matthew ™s humble chair and Luke ™s ox which gazes out from this learned gathering The patron saint of artists and doctors Luke is shown with the tools of these professions including the artist ™s palette and the doctor ™s bottle for urine samples and he is writing the Gospel in Koine Greek Greek characters One of the folio volumes at his feet bears Bloemaert ™s signature on the spine Utrecht was a Catholic stronghold and ÂBloemaert a practicing Catholic was a founding member of its painter ™s guild in 1611; he had patrons in both the Northern and the Southern Netherlands The location for which this painting was commissioned has not been identified The subject of the four evangelists appealed to both Catholics and Protestants so it might have been a safe subject for a Northern Netherlandish Catholic church ca 1612-15 Oil on canvas Size cm 179 227 3 Institution Princeton University Art Museum European Art object history exhibition history credit line Museum purchase Fowler McCormick Class of 1921 Fund accession number y1991-41 place of creation Netherlands Princeton University Art Museum PD-old-100 1651 <gallery mode packed heights 200px> File Abraham Bloemaert - The Four Evangelists - Google Art Project jpg File Bloemaert-four-evangelists jpg </gallery> cite book Steward James Christen Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections Revised and Expanded Edition 2013 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton NJ 978-0943012414 2nd 193 cite web The Four Evangelists y1991-41 http //artmuseum princeton edu/collections/objects/33564 Princeton University Art Museum Uploaded with UploadWizard DEFAULTSORT 1612 Blomaert Four evangelists Paintings by Abraham Bloemaert 1615 Paintings of four Evangelists Paintings of symbols of Evangelists Baroque paintings of men 17th-century paintings of Christian saints 1615 Paintings of saints writing Paintings of cattle Baroque paintings of saints European paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1612 Dutch paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1612 Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum European art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1615 oil on canvas paintings in the United States 17th-century paintings of angels with humans Paintings of angels in the United States 17th-century religious paintings in the United States Angels on the ground Baroque paintings of angels | ||||
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