Marten de Vos
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Marten de Vos (1532–1603), also Maarten, was a leading Antwerp painter and draughtsman in the late sixteenth century. He had, like Frans Floris, travelled to Italy and adopted the mannerist style popular at the time. De Vos was also highly influenced by the colors of Venetian painting, and might have worked in the studio of Tintoretto.[1] Following the iconoclastic destruction in 1566, he was one of the artists largely responsible for redecorating churches with new altarpieces in Antwerp. Many of these, such as St. Luke Painting the Virgin (1602), painted for the Guild of St. Luke's chapel, and the Marriage at Cana (1597; illustrated right), painted for the wine merchants guild, were commissioned by Antwerp's guilds.[2]
He was also the founder of the society of the Romanists, which brought together artists, connoisseurs and humanists who had travelled to Rome and appreciated its humanist culture.
[edit] References
- ^ Kristin Lohse Belkin. Rubens. Phaidon Press, 1998 (pp. 22-24). ISBN 0-7148-3412-2
- ^ Christiaan Schuckman: "Vos, Marten [Maarten; Maerten] de, the elder" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed 17 May, 2007].
