Quentin Massys (1460?-1530) and
Mostert (1474-1556?), a
Dutchman by birth, but, like Bouts, Flemish by influence, were among the last of
the Gothic painters in Flanders, and yet they began the introduction of Italian
features in their painting. Massys led in architectural backgrounds, and from
that the Italian example spread to subjects, figures,
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indigenous Flemish art became a thing of the past. Massys was, at Antwerp, the
most important painter of his day, following the old Flemish methods with many
improvements. His work was detailed, and yet executed with a broader, freer
brush than formerly, and with more variety in color, modelling, expression of
character. He increased figures to almost life-size, giving them greater
importance than landscape or architecture. The type was still lean and angular, and often
contorted with emotion. His Money-Changers and Misers (many of them painted by
his son) were a
genre of his own. With him closed the Gothic school, and
with him began.
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ANTWERP SCHOOL, the pupils of which went to Italy, and eventually
became Italianized.
Mabuse (1470?-1541) was the first to go. His early
work shows the influence of Massys and David. He was good in composition, color,
and brush-work, but lacked in originality, as did all the imitators of Italy.
Franz Floris (1518?-1570) was a man of talent, much admired in his time,
because he brought back reminiscences of Michael Angelo to Antwerp. His
influence was fatal upon his followers, of whom there were many,
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Franckens and
De Vos. Italy and Roman methods, models,
architecture, subjects, began to rule everywhere.
From Brussels
Barent van Orley (1491?-1542) left early for Italy, and
became essentially Italian, though retaining some Flemish color. He painted in
oil, tempera, and for glass, and is supposed to have gained his brilliant colors
by using a gilt ground. His early works remind one of David.
Cocxie
(1499-1592), the Flemish Raphael, was but an indifferent imitator of the Italian
Raphael. At Liége the Romanists, so called, began with
Lambert Lombard
(1505-1566), of whose work nothing authentic remains except drawings. At Bruges
Peeter Pourbus(1510?-1584) was about the last one of the good
portrait-painters of the time. Another excellent portrait-painter,
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Scorel, was
Antonio Moro (1512?-1578?). He had much dignity, force, and
elaborateness of costume, and stood quite by himself. There were other painters
of the time who were born or trained in Flanders, and yet became so naturalized
in other countries that in their work they do not belong to Flanders.
Neuchatel (1527?-1590?),
Geldorp (1553-1616?),
Calvaert
(1540?-1619),
Spranger (1546-1627?), and others, were of this group.
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Among all the strugglers in Italian imitation only a few landscapists held
out for the Flemish view.
Paul Bril (1554-1626) was the first of them. He
went to Italy, but instead of following the methods taught there, he taught
Italians his own view of landscape. His work was a little dry and formal, but
graceful in composition, and good in light and color. The
Brueghels—there
were three of them—also stood out for Flemish landscape, introducing it
nominally as a background for small figures, but in reality for the beauty of
the landscape itself.
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FIG. 77.—RUBENS. PORTRAIT OF YOUNG WOMAN.
HERMITAGE, ST.
PETERSBURGH.
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SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY PAINTING: This was the great century of Flemish
painting, though the painting was not entirely Flemish in method or thought. The
influence of Italy had done away with the early simplicity, purity, and
religious pathos of the Van Eycks. During the sixteenth century everything had
run to bald imitation of Renaissance methods. Then came a new master-genius,
Rubens (1577-1640), who formed a new art founded in method upon Italy,
yet distinctly northern in character. Rubens chose all subjects for his brush,
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little of Gothic sentiment, but everything of Renaissance splendor. His art was
more material than spiritual, more brilliant and startling in sensuous
qualities, such as line and color, than charming by facial expression or tender
feeling. Something of the Paolo Veronese cast of mind, he conceived things
largely, and painted them proportionately—large Titanic types, broad schemes and
masses of color,
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its ability to hold at a distance upon wall or altar. Hence, when seen to-day,
close at hand, in museums, people are apt to think Rubens's art coarse and
gross.
There is no prettiness about his type. It is not effeminate or sentimental,
but rather robust, full of life and animal spirits, full of blood, bone, and
muscle—of majestic dignity, grace, and power, and glowing with splendor of
color. In imagination, in conception of art purely as art,
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vehicle to convey religious or mythological ideas, in mental grasp of the
pictorial world, Rubens stands with Titian and Velasquez in the very front rank
of painters. As a technician, he was unexcelled. A master of composition,
modelling, and drawing, a master of light, and a color-harmonist of the rarest
ability, he, in addition, possessed the most certain, adroit, and facile hand
that ever handled a paint-brush. Nothing could be more sure than the touch of
Rubens, nothing more easy and masterful. He was trained in both mind and eye, a
genius by birth and by education, a painter who saw keenly, and was able to
realize what he saw with certainty.
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Well-born, ennobled by royalty, successful in both court and studio, Rubens
lived brilliantly and his life was a series of triumphs. He painted enormous
canvases, and the number of pictures, altar-pieces, mythological decorations,
landscapes, portraits scattered throughout the galleries of Europe, and
attributed to him, is simply amazing. He was undoubtedly helped in many of his canvases by his
pupils, but the works painted by his own hand make a world of art in themselves.
He was the greatest painter of the North, a full-rounded, complete genius,
comparable to Titian in his universality. His precursors and masters,
Van
Noort (1562-1641) and
Vaenius (1558-1629), gave no strong indication
of the greatness of Ruben's art, and his many pupils, though echoing his
methods, never rose to his height in mental or artistic grasp.
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FIG. 78.—VAN DYCK. PORTRAIT OF CORNELIUS VAN DER GEEST.
NAT.
GAL. LONDON.
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Van Dyck (1599-1641) was his principal pupil. He followed Rubens
closely at first, though in a slighter manner technically, and with a cooler
coloring. After visiting Italy he took up with the warmth of Titian. Later, in
England,he
became careless and less certain. His rank is given him not for his
figure-pieces. They were not always successful, lacking as they did in
imagination and originality, though done with force. His best work was his
portraiture,
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Europe in which he visited. At his best he was a portrait-painter of great
power, but not to be placed in the same rank with Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, and
Velasquez. His characters are gracefully posed, and appear to be aristocratic.
There is a noble distinction about them, and yet even this has the feeling of
being somewhat affected. The serene complacency of his lords and ladies finally
became almost a mannerism with him, though never a disagreeable one. He died
early, a painter of mark, but not the greatest portrait-painter of the world, as
is sometimes said of him.
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