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Painting. Movement. Early Netherlandish painting. Gerard David ( c. 1460 – 13 August 1523) was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known.
View all 54 artworks. Gerard David lived in the XV – XVI cent., a remarkable figure of Flemish Northern Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Flemish
- Oudewater, Netherlands
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Gerard David. active 1484; died 1523. Gerard David was the last great 15th-century painter from Bruges working within the tradition of realism founded by van Eyck. A subtle colourist, he succeeds in creating atmosphere through his evocative landscapes.
The Annunciation. Gerard David Netherlandish. 1506. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 605. These panels were part of a spectacular multistoried polyptych commissioned by Vincenzo Sauli, a wealthy Italian banker and diplomat with connections to Bruges, for the high altar of the Benedictine abbey church of San Gerolamo della Cervara ...
This article was most recently revised and updated by Naomi Blumberg. Gerard David was a Netherlandish painter who was the last great master of the Bruges school. Very little is known about David’s early life, during which time his work reflects the influence of Jacob Janszoon, Dieric Bouts, and Geertgen Tot Sint Jans.
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This painting, which most likely was intended as a single, private devotional panel, combines the depiction of the Nativity and the Adoration of the Shepherds as described in both biblical and mystical literature. It probably dates from the early 1480s, before David established himself in Bruges.
Caleb Leech, managing horticulturist at The Cloisters museum and gardens, explores the depiction of flora in the David Gerard painting The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard. The Met's celebrated European Paintings collection encompasses more than 2,500 works of art from the thirteenth through the early twentieth century.
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