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Petrus Christus
baerle-duc, c. 1410-Bruges, 1475/1476
A Flemish painter born in the city of Baerle-Duc whose career was closely connected with the city of Bruges. It is not known where Petrus Christus learned to paint or the name of his teacher or teachers. The first mention of the artist dates to 1444, when he is granted citizenship of Bruges. However his activities are well documented between 1457 and 1463. His name and that of his wife's are inscribed as members of the Confraternity of Our Lady of the Dry Tree between 1458 and 1463. Between 1446 and 1454 Christus received a series of commissions from the aristocracy and upper-middle classes in Bruges. From this period is the Saint Eloy and the Portrait of a Carthusian Monk (both in the Metropolitan Museum, New York), as well as the panels now in the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. Between 1462 and 1463, he was entrusted, together with the painter Pieter Nachtegale, with the supervision of two large decorations to celebrate Philip the Good's triumphal entry into the city. In the 1460s Christus's name appears in a series of documents of the painters' guild and other bodies. His artistic style reflects that of Van Eyck, from whom Petrus Christus took types and compositions, applying them to his works within a simplified format. Also evident is the influence of Van der Weyden in the harmony and arrangement of the subjects.
AINSWORTH, M. W. and MARTENS, M. P. J.: Petrus Christus: Renaissance Master of Bruges. Exhibition catalogue The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994.
EISLER, C.: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. Early Netherlandish Painting. London, 1989.
VELDEN, H. van der: "Petrus Christus's Our Lady of the Dry Tree" in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. Vol. LX, 1997, pp. 89-110.
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