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The Virgin Enthroned with Saints Jerome and Francis (Stâdelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt), signed and dated 1457, epitomizes Christus’s achievements in painting.
Petrus Christus (1410s, Baarle-Duc, today's Baarle-Hertog, Belgium – 1475/76, Bruges, Belgium) was an outstanding Flemish painter, a portraitist. Creative features of the artist Petrus Christus. Petrus Christus is the only famous Bruges painter from the period between Jan van Eyck and Hans Memling. His works hold a crucial place in the ...
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Apr 18, 2024 · Flemish art. Petrus Christus (born c. 1420, Baerle, Brabant [now in Belgium]—died 1472/73, Bruges) was a South Netherlandish painter who reputedly introduced geometric perspective into the Netherlands. In 1444 Christus became a citizen of Bruges, where he worked until his death.
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Dec 6, 2023 · Goldsmith in his Shop reveals its complexities to the viewer over time. At first, one sees a group of three people inside a room filled with trinkets. The two standing figures—a male and a female in dressed in rich, expensive-looking clothing—appear to be a couple, as the man has his arm wrapped around the back of the woman.
Biography. Petrus Christus is first mentioned in the record of those purchasing Bruges citizenship, which he acquired on 6 July 1444. He was described in the record of this transaction as a native of Baerle, which probably meant the town of Baerle-Duc on the present Belgian-Dutch border. He continued to be mentioned in Bruges documents after 1444.
Christus and his wife are recorded as members of the confraternity of Our Lady of the Dry Tree between 1458 and 1463. Between 1446 and 1454 the artist received a series of important commissions from the city’s aristocracy and upper middle classes.
Aug 15, 2011 · Petrus Christus' 'Christ as the Man of Sorrows'. We know very little about the artist Petrus Christus; he was probably born in Baerle, Brabant, around 1410 and is recorded as working in Bruges in 1444, when he was made a citizen of the town.
