The galleries · 1600 – 1750
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Theatre in paint: a hard raking light, deep shadow, and figures caught at the loudest moment of the story.

Daniel in the Lions' Den, c. 1614/1616Sir Peter Paul Rubens · National Gallery of Art 
Wooded Landscape with Travelers, 1610Jan Brueghel the Elder · National Gallery of Art 
The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet, ca. 1643Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) · The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Blind Orion Searching for the Rising Sun, 1658Nicolas Poussin · The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
The Holy Family on the Steps, 1648Nicolas Poussin · Cleveland Museum of Art 
The Dancing Couple, 1663Jan Steen · National Gallery of Art 
A Scene on the Ice, c. 1625Hendrick Avercamp · National Gallery of Art 
The Maas at Dordrecht, c. 1650Aelbert Cuyp · National Gallery of Art 
Ships in a Gale, 1660Willem van de Velde the Younger · National Gallery of Art
9 of the 52 pictures in this gallery; the rest hang in the app. Every one is cut by hand to fill a 16:9 screen in 4K.