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The Ghent-Bruges School is a manner or movement of manuscript illumination from about 1475 to about 1550 that developed in southern Netherlands, now Belgium. The term was first used in 1891 by Joseph Destree, author of ''Recherches sur les elumineurs flamands'', and art historian Paul Durrieu.Jane Turner.
The Grove Dictionary of Art: From Renaissance to Impressionism : styles and movements in western art 1400-1900
'. St. Martin's Press; 2000. . p. 118.
It replaced the "courtly style" of about 1440 to 1474 during the southern Netherlands reigns of Philip the Good and
The Ghent-Bruges School is a manner or movement of manuscript illumination from about 1475 to about 1550 that developed in southern Netherlands, now Belgium. The term was first used in 1891 by Joseph Destree, author of ''Recherches sur les elumineurs flamands'', and art historian Paul Durrieu.Jane Turner. The Grove Dictionary of Art: From Renaissance to Impressionism : styles and movements in western art 1400-1900
'. St. Martin's Press; 2000. . p. 118.
It replaced the "courtly style" of about 1440 to 1474 during the southern Netherlands reigns of Philip the Good and Charles the Bold
Charles I (Charles Martin; german: Karl Martin; nl, Karel Maarten; 10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), nicknamed the Bold (German: ''der Kühne''; Dutch: ''de Stoute''; french: le Téméraire), was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. ...
. That mid-15th-century style consisted of works in primary colors of "wooden, clumsily painted stock figures".
The Ghent-Bruges School style created illuminated manuscripts with realistic images of people, including half- and full-length portraits, colorful landscapes and the use of bright and pastel colors.
Notable artists
*Alexander Bening
Alexander Bening (died 1519), also Sanders Bening, was an early 16th-century miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school and Netherlandish tradition. His date of birth is unknown.
Bening was part of a South Netherlandish family of illuminators. ...
* Simon Bening
Simon Bening (c. 1483 – 1561) was a Flemish miniaturist, generally regarded as the last major artist of the Netherlandish tradition.
Bening, born either in Ghent or Antwerp, was probably trained by his father, illuminator Alexander Bening, i ...
* Gerard Horenbout
* Lucas Horenbout
Lucas Horenbout, often called Hornebolte in England ( 1490/1495–1544), was a Flemish artist who moved to England in the mid-1520s and worked there as "King's Painter" and court miniaturist to King Henry VIII from 1525 until his death. He ...
* Susanna Hornebolt
* Jan Provoost
Jan Provoost, or Jean Provost, or Jan Provost (1462/65 – January 1529) was a Belgian painter born in Mons.
Provost was a prolific master who left his early workshop in Valenciennes to run two workshops, one in Bruges, where he was made a burgh ...
* Levina Teerlinc
Levina Teerlinc (1510s – 23 June 1576) was a Flemish Renaissance miniaturist who served as a painter to the English court of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. She was the most important miniaturist at the English court between ...
See also
* Artists of the Tudor court * Johannes Crabbe * Raphael de Mercatellis * The Hours of Joanna I of Castile * Rothschild PrayerbookReferences
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