1630

Showing 7 works across all media from 1630

Religious painting · Rinpa

Wind God and Thunder God (Fujin Raijin-zu)

Tawaraya Sotatsu

1630 · Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto

The two gods hurtle in from opposite edges and Sotatsu leaves the whole middle empty, so the bare gold reads as sky.

★ 8.2

Portrait · Dutch Golden Age

The Merry Drinker

Frans Hals

1630 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

He raises his glass and talks straight at you, painted in slashing strokes laid down about as fast as the moment they catch.

★ 6.9

Sermon

We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are on us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

John Winthrop

1630

★ 6.9

Genre painting · Tenebrism

The Fortune Teller (de la Tour)

Georges de la Tour

1630 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

While the old woman reads his palm, three young accomplices are quietly taking his purse and lifting a medal off his neck.

★ 6.8

Still life · Baroque

Vanitas Still Life

Pieter Claesz

1630 · Mauritshuis, The Hague

A toppled glass, a lamp still smoking, a watch and a skull, all painted in browns and greys so the light does the work.

★ 6.1

Sermon

We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren.

John Winthrop

1630

★ 3.6

Personal journal

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

William Bradford

Of Plymouth Plantation · 1630

★ 3.5