Dieric Bouts
Dieric Bouts | |
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Born | c. 1415 |
Died | 6 May 1475 |
Nationality | Flemish |
Education | Rogier van der Weyden (possibly) |
Known for | painting |
Movement | Early Netherlandish painting, Northern Renaissance |
Dieric Bouts
Bouts was among the first northern painters to demonstrate the use of a single vanishing point (as illustrated in his Last Supper).
Works
Early works (before 1464)
Bouts' earliest work is the
Documented works
The Last Supper is the central panel of
Scholars also have noted that Bouts' Last Supper was the first
The Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament has four additional panels, two on each side. Because these were taken to the museums in Berlin and Munich in the 19th century, the reconstruction of the original altarpiece has been difficult. Today it is thought that the panel with Abraham and Melchizedek is above the Passover Feast on the left wing, while the Gathering of the Manna is above Elijah and the Angel on the right wing. All of these are typological precursors to the Last Supper in the central panel.
After attaining the rank of city painter of Leuven in 1468, Bouts received a commission to paint two more works for the
Devotional panels and portraits
Many of Bouts' authentic works are small devotional panels, usually of the Virgin and Child. An early example is the Davis Madonna[14] in New York (Metropolitan Museum of Art), excellent copies of which exist in the Bargello in Florence and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. This composition follows the formula of the miraculous icon of Notre-Dame-des-Grâces, which was installed in the cathedral of Cambrai (France) in 1454. The Virgin and Child in the National Gallery (London) is the largest and most ambitious of these Marian pictures.
In the realm of portraiture, Bouts expanded upon the tradition established by
Other works
The Last Supper and Justice Panels are the only works known to be definitely done by Bouts. The remaining panels from the Last Judgment Altarpiece (datable to 1468–1470) and the triptych The Martyrdom of St Erasmus (before 1466) are also fairly secure attributions. Aside from these, a number of other paintings have been attributed to him.
These are: Christ in the House of Simon, Christ in the House of Simon and Nativity fragment with the Virgin at Prayer in the
Others are Saint James the Greater
Two Boutsian works in the
Family
Bouts was married twice and had four children. One of his weddings was in Leuven about 1447. His two daughters went to convents, and his two sons became painters who carried the Bouts workshop into the mid-16th century. Little is known of the elder son, Dieric the Younger, although he appears to have continued in his father's style until his early death in 1491. The younger brother, Aelbrecht (or Albert), did likewise, but in a style that is unmistakably his own. His distinctive work propelled Boutsian imagery into the 16th century.
Exhibition Dieric Bouts, Creator of Images
In 2023, the museum of Leuven (Belgium), organised a retrospective exhibition[1] on the work of Bouts, entitled Dieric Bouts, Creator of Images, under the direction of Peter Carpreau. The main themes in the exhibition were Bouts's devotional work, his landscape painting, the use of perspective and the beauty of the banal in his paintings. Specific to this exhibition was the link made between Bouts' work and today's visual culture.
Notes
- ^ According to Karel van Mander in his Het Schilderboeck of 1604, Bouts was born in Haarlem and was mainly active in Leuven (Louvain), where he was city painter from 1468.[1] Van Mander confused the issue by writing biographies of both "Dieric of Haarlem" and "Dieric of Leuven," although he was referring to the same artist. The similarity last names led to the confusion of Bouts with Hubrecht Stuerbout, a prominent sculptor in Leuven.
References
- ^ ISBN 978 94 6466 681 6.
- ^ "Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1000–1900)". Wga.hu. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- OCLC 1091880941.
- ISBN 9789464666663.
- ^ [1] Archived September 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "The Annunciation (Getty Museum)". Gett.edu. Archived from the original on 1 November 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Dirk Bouts – The Entombment – NG664 – The National Gallery, London". Nationalgallery.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 May 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ [2] Archived October 3, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Louvre Museum Official Website". Cartelen.louvre.fr. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ a b c Snyder, James. "Bouts". Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. Retrieved 2 November 2013.
- ^ [3] Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [4] Archived September 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [5] Archived September 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ [6] Archived October 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Dirk Bouts – Portrait of a Man (Jan van Winckele?) – NG943 – The National Gallery, London". Nationalgallery.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-05-07. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Página Não Encontrada". Museu.gulbenkian.pt. Archived from the original on 7 November 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Workshop of Dirk Bouts – The Virgin and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Paul – NG774 – The National Gallery, London". Nationalgallery.org.uk. Archived from the original on 7 May 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Key facts – Dirk Bouts – The Virgin and Child – NG2595 – The National Gallery, London". Nationalgallery.org.uk. Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Saint James the Greater : Attributed to Dieric Bouts : Second half of 15th century, Oil painting on oak, From the Socorro Church, Funchal, 107 cm (H) x 42 cm (W), MASF28". Museartesacrafunchal.org. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "pinakothek.de – Förderer und Partner". Pinakothek.de. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Philadelphia Museum of Art – Collections Object : Moses and the Burning Bush, with Moses Removing His Shoes". Philamuseum.org. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ Bouts, Dirck (c. 1465), "Madonna and Child", National Gallery of Art Collections, retrieved 2023-02-12
- ^ "La Vierge à l' Enfant, assise dans une niche de pierre". Louvre Collections. Archived from the original on Oct 30, 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
- ^ "Förderer und Partner". Pinakothek.de. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
Sources
- Paul Heiland, Dirk Bouts und die Hauptwerke seiner Schule (Potsdam, 1902).
- Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 3 (Berlin, 1925); Eng. trans. as Early Netherlandish Painting, vol. 3 (Leiden and Brussels, 1968).
- Ludwig von Baldass, "Die Enwicklung des Dieric Bouts," Jahrbuch der Kunsthist. Samml. Wien, n.s., 6 (1932): 77–114.
- Wolfgang Schöne, Dieric Bouts und seine Schule (Berlin and Leipzig, 1938).
- M. J. Schretlen, Dirck Bouts (Amsterdam, 1946).
- J. Francotte, Dieric Bouts (Leuven, 1951–52).
- Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting (Cambridge, MA, 1953).
- Valentin Denis, Thierry Bouts (Brussels and Amsterdam, 1957).
- Dieric Bouts, exh. cat. (Brussels and Delft, 1957–58).
- Dieric Bouts en zijn Tijd, exh. cat. (Leuven, 1975).
- Dirk Bouts (ca. 1410–1475): Een Vlaams primitief te Leuven, exh. cat. (Leuven, 1998).
- Maurits Smeyers, Dirk Bouts, Schilder van de Stilte (Leuven, 1998).
- Anna Bergmans, ed., Dirk Bouts: Het Laatste Avondmaal (Tielt, 1998).
- Catheline Périer-D'Ieteren, Dieric Bouts: The Complete Works (Brussels, 2006).
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. .
- Peter Carpreau, e.a., Dieric Bouts, Creator of Images, exh. cat., Leuven, 2023
External links
- Dieric Bouts in the Leuven St. Pieter Church
- Dirk Bouts at Artcyclopedia
- Dirk Bouts at Panopticon Virtual Art Gallery
- Fifteenth- to eighteenth-century European paintings: France, Central Europe, the Netherlands, Spain, and Great Britain, a collection catalog fully available online as a PDF, which contains material on Dieric Bouts (cat. no. 17)
- Gerard David: purity of vision in an age of transition, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Bouts (see index)