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Rogier Van Der Weyden (1400 - 1464) - Belgium (Tournai) Early Netherlandish, Northern Renaissance
Rogier van der Weyden (Dutch: [roːˈɣiːr vɑn dɛr ˈʋɛi̯də(n)]) or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 1400 – 18 June 1464) was an Early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly successful and internationally famous in his lifetime his paintings...... |
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Hans Memling (1430 - 1494) - Germany (Seligenstadt) Northern Renaissance, Early Netherlandish
Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a German painter who moved to Flanders and worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He spent some time in the Brussels workshop of Rogier van der Weyden, and after van der Weyden's death in 1464, Memling was made a citizen of Bruges, where he became one of the leading ...... |
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Gerard David (1450 - 1523) - Netherlands (Oudewater) Early Netherlandish, Northern Renaissance
Gerard David (c. 1460 – 13 August 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known. He may have been the Meester gheraet van brugghe who became a master of the Antwerp guild in 1515. He was very successful in his lifetime...... |
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Petrus Christus (1465 - 1476) - Belgium (Baarle-Hertog) Northern Renaissance, Early Netherlandish
Petrus Christus (c. 1410/1420 – 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck. He was influenced by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden and is noted for his innovations with linear perspective and a meticulous technique which see...... |
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Dierec Bouts - Early Netherlandish, Northern Renaissance
Dieric Bouts (born ca. 1415 – 6 May 1475) was an Early Netherlandish painter. Very little is known about Bouts' early life, but he was greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and by Rogier van der Weyden, under whom he may have studied. He is first documented in Leuven in 1457 and worked there until his death in 1475. Bouts was among the first northern ...... |
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