Today is " Inspire Your Heart with Art" day , dead concur with our Thursday variation of " ˜Feel Art Again . ' To inspire your ticker , I ’ve chosen a drawing off , " An Enchanted Cellar with Animals , " by the Dutch artist Cornelis Saftleven .
1 . The Saftleven crime syndicate was a family of artists . Cornelis ' founding father and his two brother were also painters . While Cornelis was , at one time , a student of his father , Herman Saftleven the elder , it is probable that Herman the younger , Cornelis ' chum , was a pupil of Cornelis .
2 . Enchanted animal scenes like " An Enchanted Cellar with Animals" were pop in the 1600s , which was lucky for Saftleven , as he excelled at painting animals .
3 . Measuring 10 1/8 by 12 5/8 inches , " An Enchanted Cellar with Animals" is one of Saftleven ’s large and most elaborate animal illusion . appear nearly to spot the scattered preparation contraption , a distinctive Saftleven feeling .
4 . In the background of the drawing is a human observer , peering out from the curtained room access . According to the Getty Museum , " the hidden human observer " ¦ was a stock figure in Netherlandish satiric and moralizing imagery of the 1500s and 1600s . “
5 . A big collection of Cornelis Saftleven make outlast to this twenty-four hours : about 200 oil paintings and 500 drawing . While he ’s have a go at it for his satires , allegories , and brute , his most significant contribution to Dutch artistic production is considered to be his images of Hell . Despite his last collection and his contribution to Dutch art , there is very little factual selective information uncommitted about Saftleven .
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