Joachim Patinir

Years of life:	1480 – 1525
Artist's Teachers:	Quentin Matsys
Art Movement:	Northern Renaissance
Painting School:	Flemish School, Antwerp School

Genre:	Landscape , Religious
Country:	Flanders
Century:	XVI

Joachim Patinir (also called Patenier) was the first painter to make landscape his principal theme. He created a special type of bird’s-eye viewpoint landscape with a lot of different details. He liked to paint improbably craggy inhabited mountains, heavy clouds, cold seas, and tiny-scale hermits, Our Lady or Christ in the background. The master probably often painted landscape backgrounds in the paintings of other artists as well, which makes it difficult to attribute his work; he had many imitators.

Joachim Patinir’s major works are Rest on the Flight to Egypt, c. 1515 (Minnesota: Minneapolis Institute of Arts); The Baptism of Christ, c. 1515 (Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum);The Penitence of St. Jerome, c. 1518 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art).

References:

Robert Cumming. Art: complete encyclopedia. – 512 p. – Moscow: Astrel, 2005.

Artworks:

St Jerome in the Desert

between 1515 and 1520

St Jerome in the Desert • between 1515 and 1520
Landscape with Grazing Donkey

between 1500 and 1524

Fragment of a Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Landscape with Grazing Donkey • between 1500 and 1524
Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah

1520

Landscape with the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah • 1520
Temptation of St Anthony

1515

Temptation of St Anthony • 1515
St Christopher Bearing the Christ Child

St Christopher Bearing the Christ Child
Rocky Landscape with Saint Jerome

Rocky Landscape with Saint Jerome
Landscape with The Flight into Egypt

from 1516 until 1517

Landscape with The Flight into Egypt • from 1516 until 1517
Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt

1524

Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt • 1524
Landscape with Saint Jerome

between 1516 and 1517

Landscape with Saint Jerome • between 1516 and 1517
The Baptism of Christ

1510s

The Baptism of Christ • 1510s
Crossing the River Styx

between 1520 and 1524

Crossing the River Styx • between 1520 and 1524