Early Netherlandish School, 16th Century
The Holy Family
Oil on panel
51.3 x 36.8 cm,
Private collection
The present Holy Family appears to be a free and ingenious variation of a painting by Jan Gossaert, called Mabuse (1478–1532) in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. The as yet unidentified artist of the present work appears to have been active in Mabuse’s immediate circle, or possibly his pupil. The composition includes other influences and the face of Saint Joseph appears to be inspired by works of Joos van Cleve, who, along with Jan Gossaert, was one of the foremost painters in Antwerp. More on this painting
The Holy Family consists of the Child
Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. Veneration of the Holy Family was
formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop
of New France, who founded a Confraternity.
Matthew and Luke narrate the episodes from this period of Christ's
life, namely his Circumcision and later Presentation, the Flight to Egypt, the
return to Nazareth, and the Finding in the Temple.[Joseph and Mary were
apparently observant Jews, as Luke narrates that they brought Jesus with them
on the annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem with other Jewish families. More
on The Holy Family
Early Netherlandish painting is the work of
artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and
16th-century Northern Renaissance; especially in the flourishing cities of
Bruges, Ghent, Mechelen, Louvain, Tournai and Brussels, all in contemporary
Belgium. Their work follows the
International Gothic style and begins approximately with Robert Campin and Jan
van Eyck in the early 1420s. It lasts at least until the death of Gerard David
in 1523, although many scholars extend it to the start of the Dutch Revolt in
1566 or 1568 Early Netherlandish painting coincides with the Early and High
Italian Renaissance but is seen as an independent artistic culture, separate
from the Renaissance humanism that characterised developments in Italy. Because
these painters represent the culmination of the northern European medieval
artistic heritage and the incorporation of Renaissance ideals, they are
sometimes categorised as belonging to both the Early Renaissance and Late
Gothic. More on the Netherlandish School
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