{"id":6478,"date":"2015-07-14T12:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vangoyourself.wpengine.com\/?p=6478"},"modified":"2015-11-03T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T12:04:57","slug":"portrait-of-a-lady-with-a-parrot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/portrait-of-a-lady-with-a-parrot\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is thought to be a portrait of Jonekin van Herwijck, wife of leading Antwerp goldsmith Steven van Herwijck. Because of similarities in interior and costume, it is believed to be a pendant to his portrait \u2018Portrait of a Goldsmith\u2019 (1564) which is in the Royal Picture Gallery The Mauritshuis, The Hague. The parrot is likely to have iconographic meaning. Parrots and the colour green were often associated with love, which supports the idea that this is a marriage portrait. The parrot is also a symbol in the cult of the Virgin Mary, suggesting that she possessed both religious and marital faith.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SWL-by-anon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6592\" src=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SWL-by-anon.jpg\" alt=\"SWL by anon\" width=\"361\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is thought to be a portrait of Jonekin van Herwijck, wife of leading Antwerp goldsmith Steven van Herwijck. Because of similarities in interior and costume, it is believed to be a pendant to his portrait \u2018Portrait of a Goldsmith\u2019 (1564) which is in the Royal Picture Gallery The Mauritshuis, The Hague. The parrot is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/paintings\/portrait-of-a-lady-with-a-parrot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Portrait of a Lady with a Parrot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vangoyourself.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}