The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph

The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph or The Mystical Engagement of the Blessed Hermann Joseph to the Virgin Mary is a 1629-30 painting by the Flemish Baroque painter Anthony van Dyck.

Background

The painting depicts Hermann Joseph, a Premonstratensian canon and priest from the Cologne region. He had a devotion to the Virgin Mary and according to legend had several visions of her during his lifetime - the painting shows one of these, in which he was joined in a mystic marriage to her and received the name 'Joseph' after her spouse Saint Joseph^[1] It is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

History

The painting was one of several commissioned from van Dyck by the Jesuit sodality in Antwerp, of which he had become a member in 1628.^[2] It seems to have been influenced by The Vision of Saint Francis Xavier by the Antwerp painter Gerard Seghers and by Rubens's Saint Teresa of Ávila's Vision of the Holy Spirit - van Dyck had been working as Rubens' studio assistant and pupil since returning to Antwerp in 1627 after eight years in Italy, including work on a series of paintings for Saint Carolus Borromeus church.

References

↑ "Guggenheim Museum - Connecting Museums". pastexhibitions.guggenheim.org. 2002-06-05. Retrieved 2015-11-24.
↑ "TOPA FR | Antoon van Dyck en de Antwerpse Monumentale Kerken". topa.be. Retrieved 2015-11-24.

Paintings by Anthony van Dyck

Religious subjects	The Betrayal of Christ (1618–20) (Bristol ; Madrid ; Minneapolis) Christ Crowned with Thorns (1619–20) Crucifixion (1630) Crucifixion with Saints (1617–19) Deposition / Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1615; 1618; 1619; 1629; 1629–30; 1634; 1635; 1640) Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1617) Madonna and Child (1621–27) The Mocking of Christ (1628-30) Madonna and Child with Two Donors (1630) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630) Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral (1619–20) Saint Martin and the Beggar (1618) Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo (1624) Samson and Delilah (1620 ; 1630) The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph (1629–30)

Mythological subjects	Cupid and Psyche (1638–40) Drunken Silenus (1620) Jupiter and Antiope (1620) Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus (1630–32)

Portraits	Charles I (Equestrian ; At the Hunt; Triple Portrait; with M. de St Antoine) Henrietta Maria (As St Catherine; Triple Portrait) Magistrates of Brussels (Preparatory sketch) Olivia Boteler Porter

Self-portraits	1613–14 1632–33 1635 (with Endymion Porter) 1640

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