Karel van Vogelaer or Carel de Vogelaer, nicknamed Distelbloem (Thistle flower) (1653 - 8 August 1695) was a Dutch still life painter from Maastricht primarily active in Italy where he was known as 'Carlo dei Fiori'. He made a name with his elaborate Baroque flower pieces often with figures painted in by other artists. [1]
Vogelaer was born in Maastricht as the son of Pieter de Vogelaer who was also an artist. From 1668 he travelled through France where he visited Lyon. Later around 1671 he moved to Rome. He is first mentioned in 1675 in the records of the Bentvueghels , the society of mainly Flemish and Dutch artists working in Rome. When he joined the Bentvueghels he took the nickname 'Distelbloem', meaning "thistle flower". [2] The thistle is incorporated in many of his paintings as a coded signature. [3] Another nickname by which he was known in Italy was Carlo de' Fiori or Carlo dei Fiori ('Karel of the flowers') for his paintings of still life themes of flowers. Other sources call him Carlo Volgar or Carlo Vogel. [4]
According to Pascoli, he enjoyed immediate success in Rome and was patronised by many of Rome's affluent collectors such as Francesco Montioni, Marchese Niccolò Maria Pallavicini, the Abate Paolucci, and Giambattista Cefalassi. [5] But his best friends were Luigi Garzi, Gaulli and Maratta, later Franz Werner Tamm from Hamburg, with whom he often collaborated. It is said, that he also got orders from Arcangelo Corelli and the Contestabile Colonna. [6]
In Rome Carel de Vogelaer shared a house with fellow Flemish painter Anthoni Schoonjans in the Via Margutta in the mid 1680s. By 1686 he had moved to the Via del Babuino. [3] He trained or worked in the studio of Carlo Maratti. This had a major influence on his work.
Vogelaer created many works together with other well-known artists with whom he was also friends, like Carlo Maratti, Luigi Garzi, Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Anthoni Schoonjans and Filippo Lauri and Mario Nuzzi (called 'Mario de' Fiori').
He died in Rome at the age of 42. [1]
Carel de Vogelaer is now mainly known for his flower pieces. He also painted fruit and game pieces but none of these works are known. Only a few signed works exist. [1]
His numerous and loved still lifes still enjoy a high reputation today. There you can study his delicacy and minutely detailed care in executing his arrangements of flowers by numerous types in form and colour, perfectly drawn and so precisely that you are trapped by the eye and you want to pick them up. Clearly defined outlines and bright colors in several sizes and set in a natural surrounding, hold by exactly painted vases or humble urns. This is a real joy of regarding.
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The Bentvueghels were a society of mostly Dutch and Flemish artists active in Rome from about 1620 to 1720. They are also known as the Schildersbent.
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Vincenzo Armanno was a Flemish or Dutch landscape painter, who was active in Rome in the 1640s. The only source of information about Vincenzo Armanno is the 17th century Roman biographer Giovanni Battista Passeri who in his book Vite de pittori, scultori ed architetti: che anno lavorato in Roma, morti dal 1641 fino al 1673 included a chapter about Armanno. Since the publication of Passeri's book there has been a lot of speculation by art historians about the identity of this Vincenzo Armanno. Some historians have argued he is an unknown painter about whom nothing else is known while others have suggested he should be identified with one of the Flemish or Dutch painters who are known to have worked in Rome in the 1640s. Currently no works have been attributed to Vincenzo Armanno.
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