Lucas van Leyden
Leiden-born Dutch painter and engraver, one of the first to make genre painting a Dutch thing.
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Karel van Mander characterized Lucas as a tireless artist who as a child annoyed his mother by working long hours after nightfall.[1] According to Van Mander, as a boy Lucas only consorted with other young artists and was paid a golden florin for each of his years at age 12 for a watercolour of St. Hubert.[1] Max Friedländer observed that Lucas's body of work lacks a distinct stylistic progression, largely because many attributions that later proved incorrect had inflated and confused his oeuvre.[2] Albrecht Dürer and Jan Gossaert are named as two additional artists who influenced van Leyden.[3]
When Dürer and van Leyden met in 1521, Dürer made a portrait drawing of him.[3] Van Leyden's work was strongly shaped by Dürer's engraving expertise and by the Romanist style of Gossaert.[3] The series shows women in positions of authority over men across a range of scenes.[4]
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- Born
- 1494
- Nationality
- Dutch
- Known for
- Early Dutch genre painting
- engraving
- and the 'Power of Women' woodcut series
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By adorning the domineering woman with a feathered hat, Lucas van Leyden emphasized her foreignness and dangerously heretical beliefs.[5] The print is part of the Clarence Buckingham Collection with accession number 1938.1579.[5]
References
- Wikipedia, "Lucas van Leyden" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lucas van Leyden biography in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Lucas van Leyden" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Smith 1992; Friedländer 1924 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Lucas van Leyden" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Lucas van Leyden Dutch artist", Encyclopædia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Lucas van Leyden" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Iowa Research Online" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Solomon's Idolatry The Art Institute of Chicago", www.artic.edu. facts only, no text reused. artic.edu
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