Abraham Bloemaert, 1591 - Apollo and Diana Punishing Niobe by Killing her Children - fine art print

(© - by Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) - Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark))

The story of Niobe is related in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Canto 6, 146-312):

Niobe was the daughter of the proud King Tantalus of Phrygia. She married Amphion, the king of Thebes, and bore him seven sons and seven daughters. She bragged of her many children and chided the goddess Latona, mother of the twins Apollo and Diana, for having only two. In vengeance, Apollo and Diana carried out a massacre. They are shown in the clouds showering arrows down onto Niobe’s children.

Style of painting and the drama of the tale Abraham Bloemaert’s style of painting suits the drama of the tale, full of contrasting shifts between colours, light, and shade as well as complicated poses with bodies viewed from extreme angles.

The great role model: Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem Only 24 years old at the time, the painting sees Bloemaert closely approximating his great role model Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562-1638), who in the 1580s joined his friends Karel van Mander (1548-1606) and Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) to make his native town of Haarlem the centre of the special Haarlem Mannerist style.

In his famous Schilder Boeck from 1604 Karel van Mander relates how the painting was originally intended for Rudolph 2. (1552-1612) in Prague, a patron of many Mannerist artists.

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This 16th century painting Apollo and Diana Punishing Niobe by Killing her Children was painted by the male Dutch artist Abraham Bloemaert in 1591. What is more, the piece of art is in the the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark) in Copenhagen, Denmark. With courtesy of National Gallery of Denmark (public domain license).The creditline of the artpiece is: . In addition to this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a ratio of 1.2 : 1, which means that the length is 20% longer than the width. The painter, printmaker Abraham Bloemaert was an artist from the Netherlands, whose art style can primarily be attributed to Baroque. The Baroque painter lived for a total of 85 years - born in 1566 in Gorinchem, South Holland, Netherlands and died in the year 1651 in Utrecht, Utrecht province, Netherlands.

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