For the first time in over 40 years, the National Gallery are showing an exhibition dedicated to this Northern Renaissance Master's work, which aims to re-examine the artists accomplishments and showcase some new discoveries through the use of new technology.
The National Gallery's website elucidates:
Working for wealthy and extravagant members of the Burgundian court in the Low Countries in the first three decades of the 16th century, Gossaert was especially noted for his sensuous nudes, painted to evoke the sheen of marble, and his stunning illusionistic portraits in which he plays intriguing spatial games.
The first northern artist to draw directly from antiquity in Italy (during a visit to Rome in 1508–9), Gossaert was a peerless exponent of the illusionistic properties of oil paint as practised by his countrymen from Jan van Eyck onwards.
About the exhibition
The exhibition features over 80 works, including many of the artist’s most important paintings, including the ‘Virgin and Child’, 1527, Prado, Madrid, and ‘Hercules and Deianeira’, 1517, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham. It also features drawings and contemporaneous sculptures of the Northern Renaissance.
The National Gallery has one of the largest and finest collections of Gossaert’s paintings in the world – a highlight being The Adoration of the Kings (1510–15). This exhibition allows them to be set in the context of the full range of the artist’s work, from the fruits of his early visit to Rome to the unusually erotic presentation of the nude in his Adam and Eve series.
The Exhibition is held in the Sainsbury Wing until 30th May 2011 and tickets can be obtained from the Gallery or online at http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/jan-gossaerts-renaissance/*/tab/1
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