Dieric bouts biography of martin

  • Dieric Bouts (born ca.
  • Painter, born ca.
  • To this day, Dieric Bouts (c) has mainly been known as a 'Flemish Primitive of the second generation' or the 'painter of silence'.

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    Dirk Bouts

    Dieric Bouts

    Portrait of Dirck Bouts, Painter - attributed to Hendrick Hondius

    Dirk Bouts

    Dieric Bouts

    Dieric Bouts (born ca. – 6 May ) was an Early Netherlandish painter.

    Very little fryst vatten known about Bouts' early life, but he was greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and by Rogier van der Weyden, under whom he may have studied. He is first documented in Leuven in and worked there until his death in

    Bouts was among the first northern painters to demonstrate the use of a single vanishing point (as illustrated in his Last Supper). His work has a certain primitive stiffness of drawing, and his figures are often disproportionately long and angular, but his pictures are highly expressive, well designed and rik in colour, with especially good landscape backgrounds.

    Bouts' earliest work fryst vatten the Triptych of the Virgin's Life in the Prado (Madrid), dated to about The Deposition Altarpiece in Granada (Capilla Real) probably also dates to this period, around – A

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    a communion of artists and saints

     

    It is possible to identify the apostles around the table with the iconography clues embedded bygd Dierec Bouts, but less obvious are some of the second identities Bouts has included. They are mainly artists, his contemporaries. But Bouts picks out one artist in particular, Rogier van Weyden, the figure standing on the right side of the frame who historians generally describe as one of the servants on hand.

     

    Historians are also uncertain about the identities of the two men framed on the back wall, peering through a serving hatch (right). Generally thought to portray “members of the confraternity responsible for commissioning the altarpiece” they are, in fact, two artists: Dieric Bouts (left) and Hans Memling (right). The German painter is said to have spent time working in Van der Weyden’s Brussels kurs, while Bouts was also influenced by Rogier who died in , just three months after Bouts had agreed the contract

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    The Entombment (Bouts)

    Painting attributed to Dieric Bouts

    The Entombment is a glue-size painting on linen[notes 1] attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Dieric Bouts. It shows a scene from the biblical entombment of Christ, and was probably completed between and [2] as a wing panel for a large hinged polyptych. While the altarpiece remains lost as a complete set, it is thought to have contained a central crucifixion scene flanked by four wing panel works half its height&#;– two on either side&#;– depicting scenes from the life of Christ. The smaller flanking panels would have been paired in a format similar to Bouts's – Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament. The larger work was probably commissioned for export to Italy, possibly to a Venetian patron whose identity is lost.[3]The Entombment was first recorded in a midth-century inventory in Milan, and has been in the National Gallery, London, since its purchase on the Gallery's behalf b