Anthony Van Dyck Accomplishments

Sir Anthony van Dyck, a young Flemish master in art of his age after working under Peter Paul Rubens and well known for his paintings working under said artists and on his own. With his prodigious skills and high demand, he was well known as a portraitist ¬and church painter in parts of Europe.
Having traveled to difference countries for individual works, van Dyck developed a more mature style within portraits which was noted to be his strongest point as per suggestions by his mentor, Rubens (Artble). It was with this practice that van Dyck has discovered his strengths and evolved his skills throughout his career and made a name for himself when he left Antwerp to study more ways to develop his artwork.
In examination of a few paintings, there …show more content…
The painting portrayed the woman as one of high class, one who wore elegant clothing with gold chains of intricate designs and held a small book or diary in her hands as she sat posed in front of a curtain with what appears to be a forest in the distance outside her window. While still maintaining the softness of his brushstrokes, van Dyck continuously drew upon his inspiration from Titian as he worked on making sure Durazzo would release the atmosphere of a high class lady in the portrait with her back straight and poised, her hand gently hanging off the armrest as a book rested in her other hand. But what made this painting eye-catching was the details put into her accessories. Fine lines of silver paint to highlight her hairpiece and collar, careful strokes to illustrate the chains draped around her dress and the earrings hanging from her earlobes. With such precision and concentration of the detail, a viewer can look on in awe and perhaps envy of a woman of such high status. Perhaps it was this mixture of detail and concentration of atmosphere that van Dyck had become more well-known and requested for his