Solo show
Michael Sweerts, Realities and Mysteries in Seventeenth-Century Rome
8 Nov 2024 — 18 Jan 2025 at Accademia di San Luca
· Rome
This exhibition at the Accademia di San Luca presents the work of Michael Sweerts, a Flemish painter who lived and worked in seventeenth-century Rome. The show examines both the documented facts and the enigmatic aspects of Sweerts' artistic career, his engagement with Roman artistic circles, and his distinctive approach to painting during this pivotal period in European art history.
About the artist
Michael Sweerts
1618–1664 · Baroque
Michiel Sweerts or Michael Sweerts was a Flemish painter and printmaker of the Baroque period, who is known for his allegorical and genre paintings, portraits and tronies. The artist led an itinerant life and worked in Rome, Brussels, Amsterdam, Persia and India (Goa).
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Accademia di San Luca
· Rome
The Accademia Nazionale di San Luca is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its first principe or director; the statutes were ratified in 1607. Other…