  About the Artwork
  
  
  Having spent a number of years in Rome, Michael Sweerts was familiar with Italian art. He, however, concentrated on smaller depictions of genre scenes and portraits. This painting represents the interior of an artist's studio in Rome—a subject he painted on several occasions. While the plaster casts, musical instruments, and books that appear in the painting are studio props, they can also be considered as symbols of all the arts to stress the importance of a well-rounded education for any aspiring artist.
  
  
  Title
  In the Studio
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1652
  
  Artist
  Michael Sweerts
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1618-1664
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
  Please note:
  Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events.
  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Flemish
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
  Please note:
  Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group.
  
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Oil on canvas
  
  
  Dimensions
  Unframed: 28 15/16 × 23 1/8 inches (73.5 × 58.8 cm)
  Framed: 38 × 33 × 2 1/2 inches (96.5 × 83.8 × 6.4 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Paintings
  
  
  Department
  European Painting
  
  
  Credit
  City of Detroit Purchase
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  30.297
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
