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Beware of Luxury is a 1663 oil painting by the Dutch painter Jan Steen, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. [1] The painting depicts a disorderly household given over to licentious or improper behavior. In this context, the word luxury in the title implies luxuria or lust.
Beware of Luxury (“In Weelde Siet Toe”) In this painting, with its traditional German title „Die verkehrte Welt“ (“The Topsy-Turvy World”), Steen combines humorous narration with a moralising message: this house is ruled by a complete lack of restraint – the inscription on the slate tablet at the lower right laments this state of ...
Artist Biography: Remarkably, given the meager living he made from art, Jan Steen was the humorist among Dutch painters. He persevered, creating nearly eight hundred pictures, most with a...
Beware of Luxury is a 1663 painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Steen. This work is located in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.
In Luxury, Beware (detail) 1663. Oil on canvas. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. It is true that the depiction contains scores of references to the "dissolute household", a motif that Steen embroidered on countless paintings, yet quite correctly the picture once was called a proverb painting.
Beware of Luxury is a 1663 oil painting by the Dutch painter Jan Steen, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The painting depicts a disorderly household given over to licentious or improper behavior.
26 paź 2018 · Please subscribe here: http://bit.ly/2vRUBRI In this video I explain the painting by Jan Steen called In Case of Luxury Beware. It is based on prints that were very popular in the Dutch...
