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3739305
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Books
Title
Robert Campin
subtitle
De meester van Flemalle
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Illustrator
Year
1969
Type
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First edition
Number of pages
387
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Dimensions
25.0 x 33.0 cm
ISBN10
90-6153-365-1
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Book with many color illustrations, large format. His life Campin, Robert (c. 1378 - Tournai April 26, 1444), Hainaut painter, worked from 1406 in Tournai, where he was first mentioned as a burgher in 1410 and where he carried out numerous commissions, mostly of a decorative nature, as a city painter. Except perhaps one mural, there is no known work of which Campin's authorship can be proven on the basis of documents. According to Tournai records, in 1427 he was apprenticed to 'Rogelet de le Pasture', usually identified with Rogier van der Weyden, and Jacques Daret. Some panels (in museums in Berlin, Paris and Lugano) of an altarpiece by Daret are known, painted for the Abbey of St. Vaast near Atrecht. They are stylistically very related both to some works by Rogier van der Weyden and to a number of panels attributed to the Master of Flémalle. Since Daret was a pupil of Campin, the latter is plausibly identified with the Master of Flémalle on the basis of that relationship. It is thus named after two large panels, probably from Flémalle: Mary with Child and Saint Veronica (with The Holy Trinity on the back), both in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt. The main other works attributed to the same artist on stylistic grounds include the famous 'Merode Triptych', the central panel of which is The Annunciation (Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, New York), further The Nativity (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon). An early work, The Entombment, is in the collection of Earl Seilern, London. His last period includes an altarpiece, dated 1438 (Prado, Madrid), which was painted for Heinrich Werl and which comes closest to the art of Rogier van der Weyden. The style of Robert Campin or the Master of Flémalle forms the transition between the so-called international style of the last decades of the 14th century and the so-called realism of the Dutch masters of the 15th century. Plastic design and monumentality are main characteristics of his art, which appears more 'primitive' than that of Jan van Eyck, although both worked around the same time. The identification of the Master of Flémalle with Robert Campin is not accepted by all art historians. Some, such as Max J. Friedländer, regard the works attributed to the Master of Flémalle as youth works by Rogier van der Weyden. In the 1930s there was fierce polemic about this between Emile Renders, who advocated the latter theory, and Leo van Puyvelde, who saw in the Master of Flémalle a distinct and older artist. Many other art historians have devoted their attention to this problem. However, the identification of the work of the Master of Flémalle with the young Rogier van der Weyden has had fewer followers since the 1960s.

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