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Pieter Lastman (1583–1633) was a Dutch painter. Lastman is considered important because of his work as a painter of history pieces and because his pupils included
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File:Wedding Night of Tobias and Sarah - MFA, Boston SC239460.jpg, ''Wedding Night of Tobias and Sarah'', 1611,
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Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Hermitage
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Lastman (cat. no. 17) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lastman, Pieter 1583 births 1633 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Amsterdam Burials at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
Pieter Lastman (1583–1633) was a Dutch painter. Lastman is considered important because of his work as a painter of history pieces and because his pupils included Rembrandt
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (; ; 15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669), mononymously known as Rembrandt was a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker, and Drawing, draughtsman. He is generally considered one of the greatest visual artists in ...
and Jan Lievens. In his paintings Lastman paid careful attention to the faces, hands and feet.
Early life
Pieter Lastman was born inAmsterdam
Amsterdam ( , ; ; ) is the capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It has a population of 933,680 in June 2024 within the city proper, 1,457,018 in the City Re ...
. He was the fourth child of Pieter Segersz, (1548-1624), a town-beadle who was dismissed in 1578 for being a Catholic. His mother, Barber Jacobsdr, (1549-1624) was an appraiser of paintings and goods.
Education and Italy
His apprenticeship was with Gerrit Pietersz Sweelinck, the brother of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. Between approximately 1604 and 1607, Lastman was in Italy, where he was influenced byCaravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fina ...
(as were the painters of the Utrecht School
Utrecht Caravaggism () refers to the work of a group of artists who were from, or had studied in, the Netherlands, Dutch city of Utrecht (city), Utrecht, and during their stay in Rome during the early seventeenth century had become distinctly inf ...
a few years later) and by Adam Elsheimer.
Back in Amsterdam
Back in Amsterdam he moved in with his mother in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat, living next to mayor Geurt van Beuningen. Lastman never married although he promised to marry the sister of Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero. Because of his health Lastman moved in with his brother in 1632.Death
He died the next year after moving in with his brother and was buried in the Oude Kerk on 4 April 1633.Students
Because Rembrandt never visited Italy, it is likely that he was influenced by Caravaggio (see e.g.chiaroscuro
In art, chiaroscuro ( , ; ) is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to ach ...
) mainly or significantly via Lastman. His pupils besides Rembrandt and Lievens were Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Nicolaes Lastman, Pieter Pieterz Nedek and Jan Albertsz Rotius.Pieter Lastmanin the
RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: ), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center in the world. The center specializes in document ...
Rembrandt used many of the same themes as Lastman. Among his most famous works his rendition of the Stoning of Saint Stephen, The Baptism of the Eunuch, and Sacrifice of Abraham appear to be very influenced by Lastman. It is even possible that as an apprentice, Rembrandt may have done the preliminary sketches for each of these works by Lastman.
Gallery
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the list of largest art museums, 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 painting ...
File:Pieter Pietersz. Lastman 001.jpg, '' Hagar's Farewell'' 1612, Hamburger Kunsthalle
File:'The Resurrection' by Pieter Lastman, 1612, Getty Center.JPG, ''Resurrection'' 1612, Getty Center
File:Juno Discovering Jupiter with Io by Pieter Lastman.jpg, ''Juno Discovering Jupiter with Io'', 1618, National Gallery
The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current di ...
File:Pieter Lastman - De offerstrijd tussen Orestes en Pylades - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Orestes and Pylades Disputing at the Altar'', 1614, Rijksmuseum
File:Pieter Lastman - Jonah and the Whale - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Jonah and the Whale'', 1621, Museum Kunstpalast
File:Pieter Pietersz. Lastman - The Triumph of Mordechai.jpg, ''The Triumph of Mordechai'', 1624, Rembrandt House Museum
File:Pieter Lastman - Tobias vangt de vis.jpg, ''The Angel and Tobias
Tobias is the transliteration of the , which is a Graecisation of the Hebrew biblical name . With the biblical Book of Tobit being present in the Deuterocanonical books and Biblical apocrypha, Tobias is a popular male given name for both Chri ...
with the Fish'' 1625, Gemeentelijk Museum Het Princessehof-Leeuwarden
File:The Baptism of the Eunuch, Pieter Lastman, 1623, oil on panel, 85 by 115 cm, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe.jpg, Baptism of the Eunuch (1623)
File:Die Steinigung des heiligen Stephanus, nach Pieter Lastman, schwarze Kreide, 29,5 x 36,4 cm, 1630 bis 1640, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin.jpg, Stoning of Saint Stephen - Drawing
References
Additional sources
* Murray, P. & L. (1997). ''Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists'' (7th edition), p. 287, 436–438. London: Penguin Books. .External links
Artcyclopedia on Pieter Lastman
at PubHist
an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Lastman (cat. no. 17) {{DEFAULTSORT:Lastman, Pieter 1583 births 1633 deaths Dutch Golden Age painters Dutch male painters Painters from Amsterdam Burials at the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam