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Year. circa 1495. Medium. Oil on wood. Dimensions. 100 cm × 70 cm (39 in × 28 in) Location. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Holy Kinship is a circa 1495 oil on panel painting of Holy Kinship by the workshop of the renaissance artist Geertgen tot Sint Jans in the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
The Geertgen tot Sint Jans has nineteen figures. Although the character of the older generations is matriarchal, notably, the youngest generation, shown as children, are all male. They often carry their attributes, as do the three boys in the centre of the Geertgen: the saw , barrel (James the Great) and chalice (John the Evangelist).
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The Holy Kinship. From the series One hundred masterpieces. The Holy Kinship, Geertgen tot Sint Jans (workshop of), c. 1495. This painting of the family of Christ is remarkably detailed. In the background a boy with a stick douses candles on the choir screen.
Inspired by a true story, Invincible recounts the last 48 hours in the life of Marc-Antoine Bernier, a 14-year-old boy on a desperate quest for freedom. ‘The Holy Kinship’ was created in c.1495 by Geertgen tot Sint Jans in Northern Renaissance style. Find more prominent pieces of religious painting at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Since Albert Simonsz claimed that Mostaert told him that he never knew Geertgen tot Sint Jans in Haarlem, the year of Geertgen’s death is put around 1485, before Mostaert’s apprenticeship there. If Van Mander is correct about Geertgen dying at the age of 28, he could have been born around 1457.
Geertgen tot Sint Jans (c. 1465 – c. 1495), also known as Geertgen van Haarlem, Gerrit van Haarlem, Gerrit Gerritsz, Gheertgen, Geerrit, Gheerrit, or any other diminutive form of Gerald, was an Early Netherlandish painter from the northern Low Countries in the Holy Roman Empire.
Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Geertgen was probably born in Leiden and died in Haarlem. From 1480, he lived with the Sint Jansheren (Knights of St John of Jerusalem) in their Commandery in Haarlem, hence the addition ‘tot Sint Jans’ to his name. While not actually a member of this monastic order, Geertgen possibly worked as a lay brother for the ...
