英语词汇vandyke的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

vandyke. When only 19, Flemish artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck became Rubens’s assistant and pupil. One of 12 children of a wealthy silk merchant, the artist had shown great talent from his early youth and learned much from his Flemish mas- ter. Later he went to England where he married a Scotswoman and was knighted by Charles I, becoming one of the most not- ed portrait and religious painters of his day. Vandyke, as his name was spelled by the English, lived a life of luxury, keeping numerous mistresses, and had to paint prolifically to maintain his lifestyle. He is known to have done at least 350 portraits in England alone and overwork is often cited as the reason for his early death—he died in 1641, 42 years old. Van Dyke turned out masterpieces on a kind of assembly-line basis. He trained assistants to paint a sitter’s clothes, used special models for the hands (in the painting of which he excelled), and would never allot more than an hour at a time to a sitting. Van Dyck depict- ed noblemen attired in wide collars adorned with V-shaped points forming an edging or border, and his subjects often wore sharp V-shaped beards similar to his own. The large points on the Vandyke capes or collars were called Vandykes, the verb to vandyke meaning to adorn a collar with such points, and the characteristic beards were and are still known as vandykes.

词汇	vandyke
词源	vandyke. When only 19, Flemish artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck became Rubens’s assistant and pupil. One of 12 children of a wealthy silk merchant, the artist had shown great talent from his early youth and learned much from his Flemish mas- ter. Later he went to England where he married a Scotswoman and was knighted by Charles I, becoming one of the most not- ed portrait and religious painters of his day. Vandyke, as his name was spelled by the English, lived a life of luxury, keeping numerous mistresses, and had to paint prolifically to maintain his lifestyle. He is known to have done at least 350 portraits in England alone and overwork is often cited as the reason for his early death—he died in 1641, 42 years old. Van Dyke turned out masterpieces on a kind of assembly-line basis. He trained assistants to paint a sitter’s clothes, used special models for the hands (in the painting of which he excelled), and would never allot more than an hour at a time to a sitting. Van Dyck depict- ed noblemen attired in wide collars adorned with V-shaped points forming an edging or border, and his subjects often wore sharp V-shaped beards similar to his own. The large points on the Vandyke capes or collars were called Vandykes, the verb to vandyke meaning to adorn a collar with such points, and the characteristic beards were and are still known as vandykes.
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