Lucas van leyden biography sample
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Historians of Netherlandish Art Reviews
Peter van den Brink, in collaboration with Alice Taatgen and Heinrich Becker, Joos van Cleve: Leonardo des Nordens. Cat. exh. Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, March 17 – June 26, Stuttgart: Belser, pp, fully illustrated; ISBN
Christiaan Vogelaar, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Huigen Leeflang, Lucas van Leyden en de renaissance.Cat. exh. Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, in co-operation with the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, March 20 – June 26, Antwerp: Ludion, , pp, fully illustrated; ISBN
During the last eighteen months, no fewer than six major exhibitions were devoted to northern artists of the first half of the sixteenth century. Together with shows about Jan Gossart (New York and London), Cranach (Cranach et son temps, Brussels and Paris; Cranach: l&#;altro Rinascimento, Rome), and Jan van Scorel’s French altarpieces (Paris and Douai), the two monographic exhibitions featuring the work of Joos van Cleve and Lucas van Leyden reveal the broad range of artistic practices north of the Alps in the first decades of the sixteenth century as well as the diversity of current scholarship concerning an important moment in what is commonly termed the “Northern Renaissance.”
Joos van Cleve: Leonardo des Nordens is the first
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Introduction
The earliest etchings from the Low Countries are imperial portraits: one a depiction of the recently deceased Maximilian I by Lucas van Leyden (ca. –) and the other a depiction of his successor, Charles V, by Jan Gossart (ca. –) (figs. 1 and 2). The two prints share approximate dimensions as well as the date of , and each is signed with the artist’s monogram. They are also strikingly similar in their formats and in the treatments of their respective sitters. We know that Philip of Burgundy (–), the bastard son of Philip the Good, commissioned the portrait of Charles V (–) from Gossart, and circumstantial evidence suggests that he also commissioned Lucas’s portrait of Maximilian I (–). Philip of Burgundy was indebted to Maximilian I for advancing his political career, a fact that may have motivated him to commission the prints, insofar as paying tribute to the two emperors would allow Philip to assert his own political authority.
Lucas and Gossart created novel printed portraits suitable for an esteemed audience by simulating the visual properties of oil paintings. Both artists also emulated imperial woodcut portraits by German printmakers yet simultaneously transformed these sources to invent a new kind of
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Lucas van Leyden ()
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