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The Brunswick Monogrammist was an anonymous Netherlandish painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century. He (or she) painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes, and has been called "the most significant precursor of
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*''Ecce Homo'' (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
*''The Feeding of the Poor'' or ''Feeding of the Five Thousand'' or ''Parable of the Great Supper'' (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.
ref name="groveart.com" /> *''Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel'' (London, National Gallery
*''Tavern Scene'' (Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz
*''Road to Calvary'' *''Brothel scene'', 1537,
The Brunswick Monogrammist was an anonymous Netherlandish painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century. He (or she) painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes, and has been called "the most significant precursor of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (, ; ; – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called genr ...
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Identity
The monogram for which the Brunswick Monogrammist is named appears only once, on his (or her) ''Parable of the Great Supper'' in theHerzog Anton Ulrich Museum
The Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (HAUM) is an art museum in the German city of Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. History
Founded in 1754, the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is one of the oldest museums in Europe. The museum has its origins in the art and nat ...
in Brunswick. It is composed of the interlocked letters J, V, A, M, S and L,Elise L. Smith. "Brunswick Monogrammist" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 12/4/07, http://www.groveart.com/ and neither it nor careful analysis of his work have yielded consensus about his identity. His (or her, as Verhulst was female) paintings have been attributed to a number of painters, including Jan van Hemessen
Jan Sanders van Hemessen (c. 1500 – c. 1566) was a leading Flemish Renaissance painter, belonging to the group of Italianizing Flemish painters called the Romanists, who were influenced by Italian Renaissance painting. Van Hemessen had v ...
, Mayken Verhulst
Mayken Verhulst (1518–1596 or 1599), also known as Marie Bessemers,Greer, p. 26. was a sixteenth-century miniature, tempera and watercolor painter, identified by Lodovico Guicciardini in 1567 as one of the four most important female artists in ...
and Jan van Amstel
Jan van Amstel, or Jan de Hollander, (c. 1500 – c. 1542) was a Dutch Northern Renaissance painter.
Jan van Amstel was born in Amsterdam. In or before 1528, van Amstel moved to Antwerp; in that year he joined the city's Guild of Saint Luke. ...
.
Partial list of works
*''A Brothel Scene'' (New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery)''Collection: Dr. Herbert & Monika Schaefer: Selected Works''. New Haven: Mountain View Press. 1998. *''A Dispute in a Brothel'' (Sold in May 2007 at Christie's Amsterdam*''St.
John the Baptist
John the Baptist or , , or , ;Wetterau, Bruce. ''World history''. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1994. syc, ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܡܲܥܡܕ݂ܵܢܵܐ, Yoḥanān Maʿmḏānā; he, יוחנן המטביל, Yohanān HaMatbil; la, Ioannes Bapti ...
Preaching in the Wilderness'' (Sold December 2005 at Christie's London*''Ecce Homo'' (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
*''The Feeding of the Poor'' or ''Feeding of the Five Thousand'' or ''Parable of the Great Supper'' (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.
ref name="groveart.com" /> *''Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel'' (London, National Gallery
*''Tavern Scene'' (Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz
*''Road to Calvary'' *''Brothel scene'', 1537,
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
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See also
*Early Renaissance painting
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*Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting
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*Renaissance in the Netherlands
The Renaissance in the Low Countries was a cultural period in the Northern Renaissance that took place in around the 16th century in the Low Countries (corresponding to modern-day Belgium, the Netherlands and French Flanders).
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References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brunswick Monogrammist Flemish Renaissance painters Anonymous artists 16th-century births Year of death unknown