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Dieric Bouts (born c. 1415 – 6 May 1475) was an Early Netherlandish painter. Bouts may have studied under Rogier van der Weyden , and his work was influenced by van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck . He worked in Leuven from 1457 (or possibly earlier) until his death in 1475.
Dieric Bouts (born c. 1415, Haarlem, Holland [now in the Netherlands]—died May 6, 1475, Louvain, Brabant [now Leuven, Belgium]) was a northern Netherlandish painter who, while lacking the grace of expression and intellectual depth of his contemporaries Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck, was an accomplished master.
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Dierick Bouts, Dirck Bouts, the elder, Dieric Bouts, I, Dieric Bouts, the elder, Dirk Bouts, Dirck Bouts, I, Thierry Bouts, I, Theodoricus Bouts, I, Master of the Rotterdam St. John on Patmos, Master of the Munich Betrayal, Master of the Pearl of Brabant Date of birth 1410 Date of death 1475
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Feb 21, 2024 · Dieric Bouts. Only a century after his death, a University of Louvain professor hailed Dieric Bouts as the "famous inventor in depicting the countryside." Born in Haarlem, Bouts worked mostly in Louvain, where he became city painter in 1468 and married a woman from a wealthy Louvain family. He eventually established a large workshop that ...
The Painting: At once captivating because of his highly concentrated and somewhat dour expression, the man wears a red hat and blue-gray coat with fur trim at the collar. With praying hands, he turns toward an object of veneration, perhaps a Virgin and Child, suggesting to some scholars that the portrait was originally one half of a diptych (Conway 1921, Fierens-Gevaert 1928 ...
The Artist: For a biography of Dieric Bouts, see the Catalogue Entry for Virgin and Child (). The Painting: The many surviving Virgin and Child paintings of the Burgundian Netherlands are often classified into two types originating from Byzantine formulae: the affectionate Virgin (Glykophilousa; see, for example, 30.95.280) and the breastfeeding Virgin (Galaktotrophousa or Maria lactans; for ...
Flemish art. A leading figure in Flemish painting of the 15th century Netherlandish Renaissance, Dieric Bouts was strongly influenced by his older contemporaries Jan van Eyck (c.1395-1441), Petrus Christus (1410-75), and Roger van der Weyden (c.1400-64) under whom he may have studied. He was mainly active in Louvain, and was one of the first ...
