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GOSSAERT, Jan (Mabuse)
(b. ca. 1478, Maubeuge, d. 1532, Middelburg)

Jan Gossaert (Gossart), called Mabuse, Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver. Jan Gossaert was born in 1478, most probably Maubeuge (now in France) in the Burgundian province of Hainaut. It was under the name "Jennyn Van Henegouwe" (John of Hainaut) that Jan Gossaert was received as a master of the Guild of St Luke at Antwerp in 1503. We do not know where Jan Gossaert was apprenticed, and his early career is largely obscure. The composition and nature of certain of his religious paintings suggest Jan Gossaert may have trained in Bruges, perhaps with Gérard David. But Jan Gossaert also seem to have been one of the first representatives of what we may call Antwerp mannerism, as can be seen in his signed drawing, The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine.

In 1508, Mabuse travelled with Philip of Burgundy, the admiral of Zeeland, whom Margaret of Austria had sent to Rome as her envoy to Pope Julius II. They interrupted their journey to visit Trento, Verona, Mantua and Florence, where Mabuse discovered the luminous art of the Quattrocento, and the splendours of classical Antiquity. On his return, Jan Gossaert continued to study and paint for several years (1509-1516), without being able to make full use of his Italian discoveries. During this period, Jan Gossaert received many commissions on religious subjects, for which Jan Gossaert drew on the iconographical and technical resources of the Flemish tradition, the inventions of the Italian renaissance, and the inspirational example of Dürer. His Christ in the Garden of Olives is one of the first northern nocturnes, and its violent intensity owes something to both Dürer and Mantegna.- Gossaert Mabuse Jan oil painting online paintings gallery - Gossaert Mabuse Jan online oil painting gallery - online oil paintings gallery of Gossaert Mabuse Jan Bio, Gossaert’s online painting gallery and online oil paintings gallery.

When Jan Gossaert moved to Souburg at the end of 1515, Mabuse finally found the place where Jan Gossaert could express himself as an artist of the Renaissance and fully exploit his experience in Rome. There Jan Gossaert was encouraged by the prince and humanist Philip of Burgundy, who drew him into his plan to construct an Italian-style palace decorated with figures from classical mythology. It was thus that Mabuse came to paint life-size secular nudes, a subject for which there was no precedent in the former provinces of Burgundian Flanders. As Guicciardini was to say, in 1567: 'John of Hainaut was the first to bring the art of representing historical and poetical subjects with nude figures from Italy to the countries of the North." The following year, Mabuse, following Philip of Burgundy's instructions, decorated Ferdinand the Catholic's funeral hearse with nude figures and martial trophies in the classical vein. And later, in 1527, Jan Gossaert painted one final work on a mythological subject, a large-scale work, using sober and elegant architectural motifs as the setting for its subject.

Mabuse also painted many portraits. By their rigorous psychological analysis Jan Gossaert is surely one of the most talented northern artists to have practised this genre.

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