ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN Art Book contains 105+ Reproductions of Portraits and Religious Scenes with title,date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all Kindle readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).
BORN: c1400 in Tournai (present-day Belgium).
DIED: June 18, 1464. Buried at the Chapel of St Catherine.
MOVEMENT: Northern Renaissance
INTERESTING FACTS:
§ Weyden entered the workshop of Robert Campin in approximately 1428. He achieved the title of a ‘Master’ in 1432.
§ In 1436, he was made the ‘town painter of Brussels'.
§ Weyden received many commissions from nobility and foreign princes, notably; Philip the Good, House of Este and the Medici family.
§ Weyden was so well praised, that 15th century scholars referred to him as, ‘the greatest’, and ‘the most noble’ of painters.
NOTABLE WORKS:
The Magdalen Reading, Portrait of a Young Woman, Portrait of a Lady, The Last Judgment.
BORN: c1400 in Tournai (present-day Belgium).
DIED: June 18, 1464. Buried at the Chapel of St Catherine.
MOVEMENT: Northern Renaissance
INTERESTING FACTS:
§ Weyden entered the workshop of Robert Campin in approximately 1428. He achieved the title of a ‘Master’ in 1432.
§ In 1436, he was made the ‘town painter of Brussels'.
§ Weyden received many commissions from nobility and foreign princes, notably; Philip the Good, House of Este and the Medici family.
§ Weyden was so well praised, that 15th century scholars referred to him as, ‘the greatest’, and ‘the most noble’ of painters.
NOTABLE WORKS:
The Magdalen Reading, Portrait of a Young Woman, Portrait of a Lady, The Last Judgment.
