Brunswick Monogrammist
Illustration — The Sacrifice of Isaac (2nd quarter of 16th century). Oil on wood, 40 × 32 cm. Louvre Museum, Paris • Illustration — Ecce Homo The Brunswick Monogrammist or Master of the Brunswick Monogram was an anonymous Netherlandish Renaissance painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century.
Also recorded as Master of the Brunswick Monogram · Braunschweig Monogrammist
Brunswick Monogrammist
Jan l'Admiral (engraving), Jacobus de Jongh (Translation of book by Karel van Mander) · Google books · Public domain
- Born
- 1501
- Died
- 1600 · Antwerp.
- Nationality
- Habsburg Netherlands
- Occupation
- painter
- Known for
- A public house · Ecce Homo
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Illustration — The Sacrifice of Isaac (2nd quarter of 16th century). Oil on wood, 40 × 32 cm. Louvre Museum, Paris • Illustration — Ecce Homo The Brunswick Monogrammist or Master of the Brunswick Monogram was an anonymous Netherlandish Renaissance painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century.
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Identity
He (or she) painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes, and has been called "the most significant precursor of Pieter Bruegel the Elder".
Places of work recorded in the authority are Antwerp. Works named in the authority record are A public house and Ecce Homo. Work by Brunswick Monogrammist is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Rijksmuseum, Mauritshuis, Gemäldegalerie Berlin and National Museum in Warsaw.
The monogram for which the Brunswick Monogrammist is named appears only once, on his (or her) Parable of the Great Supper in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick. It is composed of the interlocked letters J, V, A, M, S and L, and neither it nor careful analysis of his work have yielded consensus about his identity. His (or her, as Verhulst was female) paintings have been attributed to a number of painters, including Jan van Hemessen, Mayken Verhulst and Jan van Amstel. • Illustration — Brothel scene, 1537; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin • Illustration — Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel (1550s). Oil on wood, 45.5 cm × 60.7 cm. National Gallery, London
Partial list of works
Partial list of works
• A Brothel Scene (New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery) • A Dispute in a Brothel (Sold in May 2007 at Christie's Amsterdam) • St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness (Sold December 2005 at Christie's London) • Ecce Homo (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) • The Feeding of the Poor or Feeding of the Five Thousand or Parable of the Great Supper (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.) • Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel (London, National Gallery) • Tavern Scene (Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz) • Road to Calvary • Brothel scene, 1537, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
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