Juan de Flandes

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Archangel Michael and Saint Francis of Assisi
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Juan de Flandes ("John of Flanders"; c. 1460 – by 1519) was a Flemish painter active in

Early Netherlandish style.[2]

Life and works

Salome with the head of John the Baptist, c. 1496, now in the Museum Mayer van den Bergh

He may have been born around 1460 somewhere in Flanders, Flandes in Spanish, which encompassed modern

Joos van Wassenhove, Hugo van der Goes and other Ghent artists. He is only documented after he became an artist at the court of Queen Isabella I of Castile, where he is first mentioned in the accounts in October 1496. He is described as "court painter" by 1498 and continued in the queen's service until her death in 1504.[4] He likely lived in Burgos[5] and mostly painted portraits of the royal family, but also the majority of a large series of small (21.3 x 16.7 cm) panels for a polyptych altarpiece for the queen. The panels have been dispersed and the largest number of panels is in the royal collection in Madrid.[6]

After Isabella's death in 1504 Juan de Flandes turned to ecclesiastical commissions from Spanish churches, beginning in

National Gallery of Art, Washington
, who have four panels each.

His works show the Early Netherlandish style of Ghent adapted to the Spanish taste and landscape, notably the requirements for groups of compartmented scenes for altarpieces. His colouring is refined, "with a preference for rather acid hues", and "while his feeling for space and light is sophisticated, a tendency to divide space into a succession of thin planes becomes a mannerism in his late works".[7]

Albrecht Dürer praised Juan de Flandes's polyptych when he was shown it by Margaret of Austria in 1521: And on Friday Lady Margaret showed me all her beautiful things. Amongst them I saw about forty small oil pictures, the like of which for precision and excellence I have never beheld.[8]

Paintings

Notes

  1. ^ Hand & Wolff, 123
  2. ^ Prado, 113
  3. ^ Alonso, Marco (1 December 2019). "El enigma de Juan de Flandes 500 años después de su muerte". Retrieved 11 September 2021.
  4. ISBN 0521808502
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  5. ^ Bermejo, Elisa (2002). "Dictionary of Art: Juan de Flandes". Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  6. ^ Hand & Wolff, 236-7
  7. ^ Hand & Wolff, 123
  8. ^ Kauffmann, C.M. "The Last Supper, with the Institution of the Eucharist and Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet". NICE Paintings - National Inventory of Continental European Paintings. Retrieved 31 December 2023.

References

External links

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