Brunswick Monogrammist

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The Brunswick Monogrammist was an anonymous Netherlandish painter, so named for the monogram which appears on his Parable of the Great Supper. Active in the mid-to-late 16th century, he also painted several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes. One of these scenes, A Brothel Scene, resides in the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.

Contents 1 Identity 2 Partial list of Works 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Identity

The monogram for which the Brunswick Monogrammist is named appears only once--composed of the interlocked letters J, V, A, M, S and L,^[1]neither it nor careful analysis of his work have yielded consensus about his identity. His (or her, as Verhulst was female) paintings have been attributed to a number of painters, including Jan van Hemessen, Mayken Verhulst^[2] and Jan van Amstel.^[3][4]

[edit] Partial list of Works

• A Brothel Scene (New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery)^[5]
• A Dispute in a Brothel (Sold in May 2007 at Christie's Amsterdam) [1]
• St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness (Sold December 2005 at Christie's London) [2]
• Ecce Homo (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) [3]
• The Feeding of the Poor or Feeding of the Five Thousand or Parable of the Great Supper (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.) [4] ^[6]
• Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel (London, National Gallery) [5]
• Tavern Scene (Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz) [6]
• Road to Calvary

[edit] See also

• Early Renaissance painting
• Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting
• Renaissance in the Netherlands

[edit] References