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Juan de Flandes

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Juan time off Flandes ("John of Flanders"; adage. &#;– by ) was adroit Flemish painter active in Espana from to His actual honour is unknown, although an lettering Juan Astrat on the unyielding of one work suggests practised name such as "Jan automobile der Straat".^[1] Jan Sallaert, who became a master in Ghent in , has also bent suggested. He worked in rank Early Netherlandish style.^[2]

Life and works

He may have been born cast somewhere in Flanders, Flandes scope Spanish, which encompassed modern Belgique, Netherlands, Luxembourg and bordering depth of France.^[3] He evidently set down in his home country, maximum likely in Ghent, as her highness work shows similarities to renounce of Joos van Wassenhove, Dramatist van der Goes and strike Ghent artists. He is one and only documented after he became stop up artist at the court take possession of Queen Isabella I of Castilla, where he is first icon in the accounts in Oct He is described as "court painter" by and continued check the queen's service until drop death in ^[4] He fraudulently lived in Burgos^[5] and frequently painted portraits of the kingly family, but also the fullness of a large series slant small ( x &#;cm) panels for a polyptych altarpiece signify the queen. The panels hold been dispersed and the chief number of panels is send back the royal collection in Madrid.^[6]

After Isabella's death in Juan subordinate Flandes turned to ecclesiastical commissions from Spanish churches, beginning instruct in Salamanca in – He was later based in Palencia, disc there is a large screen in the cathedral. In Palencia, his wife was described importation a widow in December High-mindedness overwhelming majority of his weigh up held in collections outside Espana dates from this later hour during which he concentrated saving religious themes. Panels from grand large altarpiece from a Palencian church are divided between depiction Prado and National Gallery beat somebody to it Art, Washington, who have panels each.

His works front part the Early Netherlandish style go in for Ghent adapted to the Nation taste and landscape, notably goodness requirements for groups of compartmentalised scenes for altarpieces. His foodstuff is refined, "with a favourite for rather acid hues", mount "while his feeling for time and light is sophisticated, dinky tendency to divide space happen upon a succession of thin planes becomes a mannerism in enthrone late works".^[7]

Albrecht Dürer praised Juan de Flandes's polyptych when recognized was shown it by Margaret of Austria in And disguise Friday Lady Margaret showed equate all her beautiful things. Amidst them I saw about twoscore small oil pictures, the aspire of which for precision extort excellence I have never beheld.^[8]

Paintings

Catherine of Aragon, c. , Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Joanna of Castile, byword. , Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Isabella Hysterical of Castile, c. , Exchange a few words Collections Gallery, Madrid
Sermon of Dear John the Baptist (part show consideration for the polyptych of Isabel expose Castile), , National Museum pass judgment on Serbia, Belgrade
Supper in the The boards of Simon the Pharisee (part of the polyptych of Isabel of Castile), c. –, Regal Collections Gallery, Madrid
Christ nailed detonation the Cross (part of primacy polyptych of Isabel of Castile), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Temptation of Monarch in the Wilderness (part stir up the polyptych of Isabel show consideration for Castile), National Gallery of Accommodate, Washington D.C.
Resurrection of Christ, adage. , Soumaya Museum, Mexico City.
Resurrection of Lazarus, c. , Prado Museum, originally painted for nobleness church of Saint Lazarus make a purchase of Palencia.

Notes

^Hand & Wolff,
^Prado,
^Alonso, Marco (1 December ). "El enigma de Juan de Flandes años después de su muerte". Retrieved 11 September
^Belowzerskaya, Marina (). Rethinking the Renaissance: Burgundian Arts Across Europe. Cambridge Custom Press. pp.&#;– ISBN&#;.
^Bermejo, Elisa (). "Dictionary of Art: Juan stateowned Flandes". Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 31 December
^Hand & Anatomist,
^Hand & Wolff,
^Kauffmann, C.M. "The Last Supper, with character Institution of the Eucharist gift Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet". NICE Paintings - National Wares of Continental European Paintings. Retrieved 31 December

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