Hendrick de Clerck

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Hendrick de Clerck presumed self-portrait as John the Apostle
Hendrick De Clerck, The Judgement of Midas, c. 1600. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum.
Hendrick De Clerck, The Adoration of the Magi, 1629. Anderlecht, Church of Saint Guido and Saint Peter.
Hendrick De Clerck and Jan Brueghel the Elder, Abundance and the Four Elements, 1606. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado.
Hendrick De Clerck, Lucretia, c. 1610. Private collection.

Hendrick de Clerck (c. 1560 – 27 August 1630) was a

Isabella following Ernest's death in 1596.[2]

Altarpieces

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Marten de Vos in Antwerp De Clerck was responsible for painting new altarpieces for churches in Brussels following the iconoclastic outbreaks of 1566, for which he used the clear visual language common in post-Tridentine Counter-Reformation art.[1] Despite continuing to work through the early decades of the seventeenth-century, when the Baroque language was in full bloom, late works such as the Deposition for St. Peter's in Anderlecht (1628) are still decidedly Mannerist.[1] His somewhat outmoded tendencies are also reflected in his frequent use of the triptych format that had been popular with late Medieval and northern Renaissance artists.[2]

Cabinet paintings

De Clerck also specialized in small

Denijs van Alsloot, for the landscapes and other features.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Vlieghe, p. 15.
  2. ^ a b Laureyssens.
  3. ^ a b Vlieghe, pp. 109–111.

Sources

  • Willy Laureyssens, "Clerck, Hendrik [Hendrick] de," Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed 19 November 2007].
  • Hans Vlieghe (1998). Flemish Art and Architecture, 1585–1700, Pelican history of art. New Haven: Yale University Press.
    ISBN 0-300-07038-1
  • Katharina Van Cauteren, 'Eight Unknown Designs by Hendrick de Clerck for Archduke Albert's Entry into Brussels in 1596', Simiolus, 2010, 1: 18–32.
  • Katharina Van Cauteren, 'Le printemps au milieu de l'hyver. Hendrick De Clerck (1560–1630) en het aartshertogelijke zelfbeeld tussen canon en propaganda', PhD dissertation, Leuven, 2010.

External links

https://simhm.ru/collection/1456-zapadnoevropeyskoe-iskusstvo.html

Media related to Hendrik de Clerck at Wikimedia Commons

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