Marten de Vos
| Years of life: | 1531 – 1603 |
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| Artist's Teachers: | Jeroom Scuelens, Tintoretto |
| Artist's students: | Balten Vlierden, Wenzel Coebergher, Hans Snyers, Merten Boly, Jaeckes Keerel, Jan Adriansen Cnottaert, Peeter Goutsteen, Hans Cnottaert, Hans van Alten, Hans de La Torte, Abraham van Lievendale |
| Art Movement: | Northern Renaissance |
| Painting School: | Guild of Saint Luke |
| Genre: | Portrait , Religious |
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| Country: | Flanders |
| Century: | XVI , XVII |
The leading Antwerp painter. His work combines Flemish realism and love of detail with Italian subjects and idealizations (he visited Rome, Florence, and Venice in 1552-1558). He created altarpieces (vertical, with elegant, elongated figures); portraits (worldly Flemish burghers and plain backgrounds); mythologies (large in scale, ambitious, and decorative).
Marten de Vos’s major works are St. Paul Stung by a Viper on the Island of Malta, c. 1566 (Paris: Musée du Louvre); Antoine Anselme and his Family, 1577 (Bruges: Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts); Abduction of Europa, c. 1590 (Bilbao: Museo de Bellas Artes).
References:
- Robert Cumming. Art: complete encyclopedia. – 512 p. – Moscow: Astrel, 2005.
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