Slide Images for September 17

 Judith Leyster

Self-Portrait

c. 1635

 Judith Leyster

The Proposition

1631

 Dirck van Baburen

The Procuress

1622

 Judith Leyster

A Woman Sewing by Candlelight

1633

 Judith Leyster

Tulip

1643

Clara Peeters

Vanitas

c. 1610

 Clara Peeters

Still-Life of Fish and Cat

c. 1620s

Clara Peeters

Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke, and Cherries

c. 1625

Maria Sibylla Merian

Alligator and Snake

1730

 Maria Sibylla Merian

Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium

1705

John James Audubon

Illustration from Birds of America

1840

Slide Images for September 15

 Caterina van Hemessen

Portrait of a Woman

Early 1540s

 Caterina van Hemessen

Portrait of a Lady

1551

 Caterina van Hemessen

Self-Portrait

1548

 Levina Teerlinc

Princess Elizabeth I

c. 1550s

 Levina Teerlinc

Portrait of Lady Katherine Grey

c. 1555-1560

 Levina Teerlinc

Elizabeth as Princess of England

1550

 Levina Teerlinc

Portrait of Elizabeth I 

1565

 First Great Seal of Elizabeth I

Probably based on a design by Levina Teerlinc

1559

 Pieter Aertsen

The Meat Stall

1551

 Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The Return of the Hunters

1565

 Jan Vermeer

The Milkmaid

c. 1657-1558

 Jan Vermeer

Woman Holding a Balance

c. 1664

 Geertruydt Roghman

Woman Spinning

Before 1650

 Jan Vermeer

The Lacemaker

c. 1665-1668

Geertruydt Roghman

Two Women Sewing

c. 1650

Terms of the Day for September 15

• Iconoclasm - the deliberate destruction of religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives.
• Genre – from the French word for “sort” or “kind”, genre refers to types of artworks, usually having to do with subject matter.  In the sixteenth century, several kinds of subjects became popular, including landscape, still life, portraits, mythologies, and scenes of everyday life.
• Genre painting – Paintings that focus specifically on the genre of everyday life.