Maryleen Schiltkamp
AMSTERDAM
Maryleen Schiltkamp exhibited worldwide with colorful oil on canvas paintings, and recently performs on stage during concerts with live music-painting.
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Italian Renaissance
- Maryleen Schiltkamp
- Palazzo Ducale
- Oil On Canvas
- 115 x 175 cm
- Signature: Signed in the lower left corner: MCJMS, and the year in Roman numerals: MCMXCVI NB: Also in the lower left corner is the small symbol of a diptych. This symbol, or sign, appears on several of Schiltkamp's paintings from the Renaissance series. Originally it is a diptych by Quinten Matsys from 1517, with on the left panel the humanist scholar Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and on the right Pieter Gilles, city clerk of Antwerp. It was a token of friendship between the gentlemen, and given as a present to their mutual friend Thomas More. As an art-historian and priest, Antoine Bodar did academic research on this diptych, which was published also in his book "Gezellin van de Stilte" of 1992, in the chapter of the scholar's portrait, "Het Geleerdenportret". By the sign of the diptych, Maryleen wished to make the connection with Antoine Bodar and great classical friendships throughout time.
Central in this painting is the black horse rearing up, with on middle right a woman running away from the scene towards viewer, derived from Tintoretto (The finding of the body of St Marc 1562). The architectural setting is an Italian Renaissance palace, with vaulted ceilings and a colonnade referring to Frederico da Montefeltro’s palace in Urbino. In Schiltkamp's Renaissance series, this palace often appears, as its court life inspired Castiglione for his ‘Il Libro del Cortegiano” (The Book of the Courtier) written during 1513-1518.
- Subject Matter: Palace courtyard with figure and horses
- Collections: Renaissance (1994 - 1998)
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