“My main inspirational sources are the Flemish Primitives, HansMemling, Rogier van der Weyden as well as Hans Holbein. Their work is the model of perfection in painting technique, material-expression, composition and the use of color. It breathes the peace and harmony which I also want in my own work.” ( Quote; Ellen de Groot, introduction page)
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Dutch Primitives (Boijmans van Beuningen) Paintings from the late Middle Ages - EXHIBITION 16 February to 25 May 2008 Bringing together more than sixty rare and poignant works, this exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen provides an impressive survey of late medieval painting in Holland. The panels that make up this unique exhibition come from museums all around the world. Little is known about the Dutch primitives active around 1500, but they were certainly the match for their Flemish contemporaries. The work of the most important exponent, Geertgen tot Sint Jans from Haarlem, displays an unprecedented expressiveness. His realistic depiction of emotions and his eye for detail were typical of painting in Holland.
De Vlaamse Primitieven en het Exotisme (Early Netherlandish art and exoticism) - Exhibition - Groeninghe Museum Brugge- 11 May 2007 – 7 October 2007. Deze documentaire opstelling toont hoe de Vlaamse Primitieven omgingen met exotische elementen en hoe ze die in hun schilderijen verwerkten. Hoe beeldden ze bijvoorbeeld andere rassen, exotische diersoorten, niet-Europese plaatsen, vreemde producten, andere religies, enz. uit. Waarop baseerden ze zich ; wat waren hun informatiebronnen? Op het einde van de 15de eeuw werd de blik van de Middeleeuwer opengebroken door de ontdekking van de Nieuwe Wereld. Aan de hand van deze kleine expositie onderzoeken we hoe de Vlaamse Primitieven hierop reageerden
Nationalmuseum in Stockholm receives Getty grant for study of Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish drawings. Thursday 27 December 2007 The Getty Foundation has awarded a substantial grant to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to perform in-depth research, including scientific examination, of its 1000-odd Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish drawings of the 15th to the 18th century.
Flemish Masters, Verdi's Force, Kelley's Trauma: Brussels Picks Review by Jim Ruane June 27 (Bloomberg) -- Flemish painters such as Rubens and Van Dyck were the Damien Hirsts and Andy Warhols of the 17th century. The oligarchs of the time -- Europe's sovereigns -- competed to snap up their works, or to commission portraits. The English court had a fondness for Flemish and Dutch painting, and Queen Elizabeth II has lent the Fine Arts Museum 51 masterpieces from her rich collection of works from the 15th to 17th centuries, enhanced by a few of the museum's treasures. The curators have opted for a scholarly, chronological structure, starting with a superb series of portraits. It includes a movingly natural depiction of an unidentified man by Memling (c.1480) and a startlingly homely likeness of Emperor Charles V (c.1514-1516) by an anonymous master, which was in the collection of Henry VIII.
The website of the Musée du Louvre features a number of chosen objects in illustrated art-historical lectures. Among them is a very nice presentation ofJan van Eyck's Rolin Madonna.
Web Museum Paris - Memling, Hans (1430?-94). Although he was known as a master of Flemish painting, Hans Memling was born in Seligenstadt, near what is today Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Memling, whose name is sometimes spelled Memlinc, first established himself as a painter in Brussels. In style and composition his work shows the strong influence of Rogier van der Weyden, the great Flemish painter. Because of this, Memling is thought to have studied under the older artist. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/memling/
Bruges and the ‘Flemish Primitives’-Connoisseurs and the general public alike are well aware that the collective name 'Flemish Primitives', used to designate the artists of the fifteenth-century Southern Netherlands, is not intended to be pejorative. This rather misleading name for what is, for the most part, a highly accomplished body of late-medieval and pre-Renaissance paintings, arose in the nineteenth century. It expresses the Romantics' sense of nostalgia for the pure, spiritual and innovative character of this monumental, technically innovative and highly skilled school of oil painting. Other characteristics of Flemish Primitive art arose from the technique of oil ...The Flemish Primitives Gallery in the Groeninge Museum boasts three ...
Web Museum Paris- Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543) - Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, Hans received his first lessons in art from his father. In 1515 the younger Holbein went to ... www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/holbein/
The Getty Foundation has awarded a substantial grant to the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm to perform in-depth research, including scientific examination, of its 1000-odd Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish drawings of the 15th to the 18th century.
