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The best known include the Portrait of a Carthusian (1446) and Portrait of a Young Girl ( c. 1470 ); both are highly innovative in the presentation of the figure against detailed, rather than flat, backgrounds.
View all 27 artworks. Petrus Christus lived in the XV cent., a remarkable figure of Flemish Northern Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Flemish
- Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
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Portrait of a Carthusian. Petrus Christus Netherlandish. 1446. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 605. Christus placed his sitter in the corner of a warmly illuminated room and enhanced the quality of his "real" presence by the fly resting momentarily on the fictive frame.
The Museum’s collection includes one such portrait of 1446 , arguably Christus’s finest and the earliest of his signed and dated works, depicting a lay brother of the Carthusian order. In certain ways, it represents an homage to the lifelike portraits of Jan van Eyck in its three-quarter bust-length view, and the attention lavished upon the ...
Apr 18, 2024 · Among Christus’s most important paintings are Portrait of a Carthusian (1446), St. Eligius (1449), the Virgin with Saints Jerome and Francis (probably 1457), and the Virgin with Child, St. Barbara and a Carthusian Monk. This article was most recently revised and updated by Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Portrait of a Young Girl is a small oil-on-oak panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus. It was completed towards the end of his life, between 1465 and 1470, [1] [2] and is held in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. [3] It marks a major stylistic advance in contemporary portraiture; the girl is set in an airy, three ...
Christus's most personal works are his portraits, notably Edward Grimston (1446, Earl of Verulam coll., on loan to NG, London), in which he abandons the dark backgrounds of Jan and Rogier and places his sitter in a clearly defined interior.
