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Democritus and Heraclitus

Johannes Paulus Moreelse, or Johan Pauwelszon Moreelse, (c. 1603, Utrecht - 1634, Utrecht) was a Dutch baroque painter belonging to the school of Utrecht Caravaggism during the Dutch Golden Age. His father, Paulus Moreelse, was at that time a famous Portrait painter. Of his life little is known. Johan Moreelse studied in Utrecht, in the studio of its father, and then in Rome (1627), where he was appointed into a papal knight order. Moreelse died in his hometown during a plague epidemic. His small number of works were only assigned to him since the 1970s.

References

* Benedict Nicolson, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 116, No. 859, Special Issue Devoted to Caravaggio and the Caravaggesques, pp. 618-620 (10/1974).
* B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Oxford (1979), 2nd ed., dl. I, pp. 150-151
* J. A. Spicer [e.a.], cat. tent. Masters of Light. Dutch painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age, Baltimore (The Walkers Art Gallery), San Francisco (Fine Arts Museum), London (The National Gallery) (1997-1998), pp. 385-386

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