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Throughout, the authors draw on archival documents relating to citizenship, public celebrations, contracts, and confraternities to describe artistic activity in Bruges and to construct Christus's cultural biography.
Mar 7, 2023 · Christus, Petrus, approximately 1410-1472 or 1473 -- Congresses, Painting, Renaissance -- Belgium -- Bruges -- Congresses. Publisher. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, Belgium. Collection. inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks.
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That Christus had to purchase his citizenship suggests that he had not been in Bruges for long at that point, as citizenship was granted for free to anyone who had resided in the city for more than a year.
- Till-Holger Borchert
Within a short time, Christus secured several important commissions and rose to prominence as Bruges’ leading painter of the mid-fifteenth century, after the death of Jan van Eyck in 1441, and before Hans Memling arrived, around 1465.
The Bruges aldermen, for example, visited the work- shop of Jan van Eyck, and Archduke Maximilian in- spected Hugo van der Goes's paintings at Rooklooster.97 Petrus Christus seems to have invoked this tradition to underscore the goldsmith's prestige by staging a (fic- tional) visit.
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Christus is placed in the context of fifteenth-century Bruges, a wealthy and powerful city under the rule of the dukes of Burgundy. its status as a ducal seat fostered a lively cultural life, and patrons for artistic undertakings were also found in the relatively large number of well-to-do citizens and foreign merchants who lived there.
