The Annunciation, c. 1450, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Petrus Christus (Dutch:[ˈpeː.trʏsˈkrɪs.tʏs,ˈxrɪs-]; c. 1410/1420 – 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck. He was influenced by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden and is noted for his innovations with linear perspective and a meticulous technique which seems derived from miniatures and manuscript illumination. Today, some 30 works are confidently attributed to him.[1] The best known include the Portrait of a Carthusian (1446) and Portrait of a Young Girl (c. 1470); both are highly innovative in the presentation of the figure against detailed, rather than flat, backgrounds.
For the period between the death of Jan van Eyck in 1441 and Hans Memling establishing himself in the city in the mid-1460s, Christus was the leading painter in Bruges, which was then the leading Netherlandish centre of painting.[2]
Christus was an anonymous figure for centuries, his importance not established until the work of modern art historians. Giorgio Vasari barely mentions him in his biographies of painters, written in the Renaissance, and near contemporary records merely list him amongst many others. In the early to mid-nineteenth century, Gustav Waagen (who identified him French-style as "Pierre Christophsen") and Johann David Passavant were important in establishing Christus's biographical details and in attributing works to him.[3]
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PetrusChristus (Dutch: [ˈpeː.trʏs ˈkrɪs.tʏs, ˈxrɪs-]; c. 1410/1420 – 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where...
Christus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Christus may refer to: Christ (title) PetrusChristus (c. 1410s – c. 1475), Dutch painter Sir Christus (1978–2017)...
in his Paele Madonna, Lucca Madonna, and the Dresden Triptych, and PetrusChristus in his Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Jerome and Francis have...
A Goldsmith in His Shop is a 1449 painting by PetrusChristus, a leading painter in Bruges. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This is an oil...
painters include Campin, van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Dieric Bouts, PetrusChristus, Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes and Hieronymus Bosch. These artists...
a painting in oils on oak panel by the Early Netherlandish painter PetrusChristus in 1446. The work is part of the Jules Bache Collection housed at the...
panel painting completed c. 1450 by the Early Netherlandish painter PetrusChristus. It shows Saint Barbara presenting a Carthusian monk identified as...
dated c. 1462–1465, attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter PetrusChristus. It shows the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child standing on a disembodied...
miniature church of chased gold in the open palm of his left hand. The PetrusChristus panel of 1449 illustrating this article, since the removal of its overpainted...
him. His style was widely adopted, most notably by van der Weyden, PetrusChristus and Hans Memling. The small Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon...
Sicily') was in contact with Van Eyck's most accomplished follower, PetrusChristus, in Milan in early 1456. It appears likely that this was in fact Antonello...
Memling on BALaT - Belgian Art Links and Tools (KIK-IRPA, Brussel) PetrusChristus: Renaissance master of Bruges Fifteenth- to eighteenth-century European...
painting by Robert Campin Nativity (Christus), a devotional mid-1450s oil-on-wood panel painting by PetrusChristus Nativity (Correggio), a painting finished...
through the windows. The Last Supper is the second dated work (after PetrusChristus' Virgin and Child Enthroned with St. Jerome and St. Francis in Frankfurt...
the Good, Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1450 Portrait of a Young Girl , PetrusChristus, between 1465–70 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Titian, c.1500–1558...
Giovanni Bellini. The Northern school of painting is represented by PetrusChristus, Hans Memling, the Master of Moulins (Jean Hey), Hans Holbein, and...
van der Weyden's style. Delenda writes that, with the exception of PetrusChristus, who was a disciple of Jan van Eyck, traces of Rogier van der Weyden's...
Lille William Caxton, English merchant, diplomat, writer, and printer PetrusChristus, Flemish painter Gerard David, Flemish painter Hans Memling, Flemish...
Max Jakob. Early Netherlandish Paintings, Volume 1: The van Eycks, PetrusChristus. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967 Gelfand, Laura; Gibson, Walter...
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