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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.
The ways in which the Portrait of a Carthusian differs from Van Eyck’s representations show the innovations Christus brought to Flemish portraiture. Instead of employing a uniformly dark, anonymous setting, Christus set off the white-robed figure with a warm red, ambiguous background.
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.
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The leading painter of Bruges following Jan van Eyck’s death in 1441, Christus moved beyond the flat neutral backgrounds of his predecessor’s portraits. The illusionistic inscription underscores the verisimilitude of the portrait, declaring: "Petrus Christus made me in the year 1446." Listen.
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.
- Flemish
- Baarle-Hertog, Belgium
The use of convex mirrors was a device exploited by northern painters, such as in Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434)—another oil on oak panel painting. In that painting, a convex mirror hanging in the back of the room reflects the artist himself, whose self-portrait con be discerned in the glass.
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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 ...
