Jean Delemer (1410 – 1440), was a Flemish sculptor.
Biography
He was active in
Tournai from 1428 to 1440 and was possibly from
Valenciennes
Valenciennes (, also , , ; nl, label=also Dutch, Valencijn; pcd, Valincyinnes or ; la, Valentianae) is a commune in the Nord department, Hauts-de-France, France.
It lies on the Scheldt () river. Although the city and region experienced a ...
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[Jean Delemer]
in the RKD
The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...
He was probably born in the 1410s as he was paid in 1428 for carving a life-size stone Annunciation group after a painting by
Robert Campin
Robert Campin (c. 1375 – 26 April 1444), now usually identified with the Master of Flémalle (earlier the Master of the Merode Triptych, before the discovery of three other similar panels), was the first great master of Early Netherlandish paint ...
for what is now the
Church of Saint Quentin in Tournai. His Annunciation group is considered the earliest example of the
Late Gothic style. Besides this group, no other works by the sculptor are known.
[From The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art in Oxford Reference]
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PM 131856 B Tournai.jpg, Tournai
PM 131853 B Tournai.jpg, Tournai
Église Saint-Quentin, Tournai 03.JPG, Tournai
PM 131852 B Tournai.jpg, Tournai
References
1410s births
1440s deaths
Artists from Tournai
Early Netherlandish sculptors
Flemish sculptors (before 1830)
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