Balthasar Denner
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Balthasar Denner was a German painter, highly regarded as a portraitist. He painted mostly half-length and head-and-shoulders portraits and a few group portraits of families in interiors. Usually Denn
Balthasar Denner self-portrait, 1719
The old man with an hourglass and a skull, painted in Rembrandt's style (National Museum in Warsaw).
George Frideric Handel in 1727 attributed to Denner.
Portrait of an Old Woman
Brockes Passion
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The Brockes Passion, or Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesus, is a German oratorio libretto by Barthold Heinrich Brockes, first published in 1712 and going through 30 or so editio
Title page of the Brockes Passion (1712)
Engraved portrait of Brockes (1744) by Christian Fritsch (1704–1760)