Adam de Coster by Pieter de Jode II after Anthony van Dyck
Adam de Coster[1] (c. 1586 in Mechelen – 4 May 1643 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter. He was a prominent member of the Antwerp Caravaggisti. These Caravaggisti were part of an international movement of European artists who interpreted the work of Caravaggio and the followers of Caravaggio in a personal manner.[2] He is mainly known for his genre scenes with strong chiaroscuro effects. He was called a Pictor Noctium (English: 'Painter of Nights') because of his preference for tenebrist scenes.[3]
^Name variations: Adam de Ceuster, Adam de Ceustere, Adam Koster, Adam de Keuster
^Anna Orlando, Schede in Lights and Shadows. Caravaggism in Europe, catalogo della mostra, Cesare Lampronti Gallery, London, 2015[permanent dead link], pp. 76-77
^Adam de Coster, A young woman holding a distaff before a lit candle at Sotheby’s
AdamdeCoster (c. 1586 in Mechelen – 4 May 1643 in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter. He was a prominent member of the Antwerp Caravaggisti. These Caravaggisti...
de La Tour, who painted many works illuminated with a single candle, Trophime Bigot, Gerrit van Honthorst, and Rembrandt. In Flanders AdamdeCoster was...
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They include Theodoor Rombouts, Gerard Seghers, Jan Cossiers, AdamdeCoster, Jacques de l'Ange and Jan van Dalen. In Bruges, Jacob van Oost painted genre...
Georges de La Tour in Lorraine. They may have also influenced Flemish Caravaggisti such as Theodoor Rombouts, Gerard Seghers, Jan Cossiers, AdamdeCoster and...
can be seen directly or indirectly in the work of Peter Paul Rubens, Jusepe de Ribera, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and Rembrandt. Artists heavily under his influence...
Repentance of Peter, Petr Brandl, 1724 Knüpfer, Denial of Saint Peter AdamdeCoster, The Denial of Saint Peter Theodoor Rombouts, The Denial of Saint Peter...
Melancholy (Accademia, Venice) Emperor Domitian (Louvre) Eve and Laboring Adam (Louvre) Angel in the Garden (Louvre) Jacob's Dream (Kunsthistorisches Museum...
favour and the protection of influential people, beginning with Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and especially of the Grand Duchess, Christina...
and at Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. He also worked for Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Honthorst returned to Utrecht in 1620, and...
Caravaggisti, are generally illuminated by strong lighting effects. AdamdeCoster, Gerard Seghers and Theodoor Rombouts were the main exponents of this...
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commissions in Fabriano and Genoa before moving to Paris to the court of Marie de' Medici. He spent the last part of his life at the court of Charles I of England...
Luxembourg and the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In 1632, he worked for Cardinal Richelieu at the Palais-Royal and the Château de Malmaison. In 1631 he...
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followers often referred to as the Utrecht Caravaggists, as well as by Jusepe de Ribera and Peter Paul Rubens. He did not share the other Northern Caravaggisti's...
to Kandy. When Rajasingha learned that Coster was reluctant to return more of the conquered land, he had Coster and his seven companions killed near Nilgala—on...
Peasants on the Way to the Market Anthony van Dyck, Self-portrait AdamdeCoster, The Denial of Saint Peter Adriaen Brouwer, Drinking peasant Gonzales...
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the works of the Venetian Caravaggesque painter Domenico Fetti, the German Adam Elsheimer, and the Dutchmen Jacob Pynas, Pieter Lastman and many others....
rkd.nl. De Bie, Cornelis, biography of Jan Bronckhorst in Het Gulden Cabinet, 1662, p 278, on Google Books Baldinucci, Filippo (1728). Notizie de' Professori...
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