Isaak van den Blocke

Illustration number 0000370500
Dimensions: 2376x2418 pixels
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Physical connection Reference in ‘composite artworks’: artworks that are/were connected, such as alterpieces, decorative pieces incorporated in panelling, and works of art that were intended to be displayed together, such as pendants and series.

part of a series

Isaak van den Blocke, Reeks van 25 plafondschilderingen in de Rode zaal (Ratusz Główny) in het raadhuis van Gdansk , , volgnummer 12

part of a series of 25 ceiling paintings (based on a program by Eugeniusz Iwanoyko) with biblical subjects or episodes from Greek and Roman mythology. Made by Isaak van den Block in the period 1604-1608 for the ceiling of the Red Hall (Ratusz Główny) in the town hall of Gdansk. Now transferred to Muzeum Historycznege Miasta Gdańska (Ratusz), replacing works by Hans Vredeman de Vries. For the whole series: Images 233379

Support/medium

canvas, oil paint

Shape/dimensions

round 115 x 115 cm
diameter

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

inscription upper center: A DOMINO SAPIENTIA
inscription upper left: CONSILIUM RES SANCTA

Current attribution: Isaak van den Blocke

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: 1604-1609 (1604 - 1609)

1604-1608 dating Grzybkowska 2003; 1606-1609 dating Petkau/Block 2007
Created in: Gdańsk

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Het gebed van koning Salomo (1 Koningen 3:4-15)
English title: Solomon's prayer for wisdom (1 Kings 3:4-15)
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: Old Testament and Apocrypha, interior view, temple, praying, crown, scepter, king, divine light, prayer
Iconclass code Iconclass codes and text contain specific scenes and names. An Iconclass code or notation is a code from the multi-lingual Iconclass system for subject retrieval. For more information about this system, see www.iconclass.nl.: 71I31
Solomon's prayer for wisdom (1 Kings 3:4-15)

Provenance

Collection(s): Muzeum Historycznege Miasta Gdańska (Ratusz), Gdańsk

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Malarstwo gdanskie : XVI i XVII wieku Muzeum Pomorskie w Gdansku , Gdańsk , 1957 - 1958 , p. 45, no. 27

Literature

Drost 1938 , p. 121-122
Grzybkowska 2003 , p. 45, 86, no. 12, 87, ill., 100, ill. in color

A. Gosieniecka, ‘Ze studio nad malarstwem Pomorskim cz. I. Przełom xvi i xvii wieku w malarstwie Gdańskim’, Gdańskie studia muzealne 1 (1976), p. 9-38, esp. p. 20, ill. 6 (English summary , p. 36-38: Studies of the history of painting in Gdańsk. Part 1. The turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.)
V. Petkau, P. Block, Das Blockbuch. ( chapter„Künstlerfamilie van den Blocke“, section „Izaak van den Blocke“, p. 12–19) 2007, published privately (online via: http://chort.square7.ch/Pis/Block.pdf, consulted March 2013)

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BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 0000370500)

Project: Gerson Digital : Poland

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Creation date: 2013-03-06; Last modified date: 2022-05-16

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