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Edward Grimston. Petrus Christus. Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Young Man, 1450-60. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
Dec 6, 2023 · A Goldsmith in his Shop. by Christine Zappella. Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop, a conversation with Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris in front of Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in his Shop, 1449, oil on oak panel, 100.1 x 85.8 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Petrus Christus (c.1410–c.1475) Birmingham Museums Trust. (b ?Baerle-Duc [now Baarle-Hertog], ?c.1410; d Bruges, 1475/6). Netherlandish painter, active in Bruges. He is first documented there in 1444 and was the leading artist in the city in the generation after Jan van Eyck, who died in 1441. Traditionally he has been regarded as Jan's pupil ...
1410 - 1476. Petrus Christus 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 seems derived ...
The refinement of this image makes it more comparable with Christus’s portraits than with the somewhat formulaic heads in his religious paintings. The Museum’s collection includes one such portrait of 1446 ( 49.7.19 ), arguably Christus’s finest and the earliest of his signed and dated works, depicting a lay brother of the Carthusian order.
The Artist: For a biography of Petrus Christus, see the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Painting: This Annunciation departs from conventional depictions of the theme in early Netherlandish painting; the outdoor setting, bird’s-eye point of view, and the placement of the Virgin in a church doorway are unusual features.[1]
Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Young Woman, c. 1470, oil on oak, 29 x 22.50 cm (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). In the Google Art Project: ...
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