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Jan Gossaert (c. 1478 – 1 October 1532) was a French-speaking painter from the Low Countries also known as Jan Mabuse (the name he adopted from his birthplace, Maubeuge) or Jennyn van Hennegouwe , as he called himself when he matriculated in the Guild of Saint Luke, at Antwerp, in 1503.
Jan Gossaert (Jean Gossart) active 1508; died 1532. Jan Gossaert, sometimes called Mabuse after his birthplace Maubeuge, is more correctly named as Jean Gossart, following his own signature and his origins in French-speaking Hainault. He may have begun his career in Antwerp, but by 1508 he was almost certainly in the service of Philip of ...
Jan Gossaert was probably born around 1478. He is often called Mabuse after his birthplace in Maubeuge in Hainaut, a town in present-day France. Nothing is known about his early training, though it is sometimes suggested that he worked in Bruges. Gossaert is first mentioned in Antwerp in 1503 when he became a master in the painters' guild.
Jan Gossaert (also called Mabuse: fig.1) was born in Maubeuge in about 1478. His name was in fact Jean Gossart, and he seems to have been generally known as such, but for obscure reasons the spelling ‘Jan Gossaert’ gradually gained currency during the second half of the nineteenth century 1 and became canonical during the twentieth century ...
Mar 22, 2024 · Jan Gossart (born c. 1478, Maubeuge?, France—died October 1, 1532, Antwerp?) was a Netherlandish painter who was one of the first artists to introduce the style of the Italian Renaissance into the Low Countries.
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Jan Gossart was the first Netherlandish artist to absorb the achievements of classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance into his artistic vocabulary. Uniting Renaissance architectural forms and classicizing figures with a rich color palette, he achieved a distinctly new style of Northern European painting.
Jan Gossaert (Jean Gossart), The Adoration of the Kings, 1510-15. Read about this painting, learn the key facts and zoom in to discover more.
