Herri met de Bles

Called Herri met de Bles, Henri de Dinant, Herry Patenier, Hendrick met de Bles, (c. 1500/1510 in Bouvignes-sur-Meuse/Dinant; † 1555-1560 in Antwerp or Ferrara) was a Flemish landscape painter of the Renaissance which is associated with the northern Mannerism.

Life

Herri met de Bles was probably the nephew of Joachim Patinir (c. 1475/1480-1524 ). He is with the painters January Mandyn (around 1500-1560 ), Pieter Huys (around 1519/1520-1581/1584 ) and Jan Wellens de Cock (c. 1475/1480-1527/28 ) a group of Flemish painters associated in Antwerp, as the successor of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450/1460-1516 ), the tradition of fantastic painting continued and led to a northern Mannerism (as opposed to Italian Mannerism ) justified.

According to Karel van Mander (1548-1606) got his nickname of Herri met de Bles due to a white forelock, a blaze. From the life of this painter, little is known. A Herry de Patenir which is generally equated with Herri met de Bles, 1535 was registered as a master of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke. If he mentioned in the history of Italian art, in Ferrara buried painter Il Civetta is the same, he may have spent his last years as a court painter to the Duke of Este.

He painted after his models Joachim Patinir and Hieronymus Bosch highly detailed landscapes. Note the embedded scenes that fit into their perspective and atmosphere right in the images. Among his most famous works is the image of St. John on Patmos, which was built about 1535.

Attributed works

  • Saint John on Patmos, 1535
  • The Temptation of Saint Anthony, by 1540/50, oil on wood, round, dia. 16 cm, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
  • Landscape with Saint Anthony, nd, oil on wood, round, dia. 24 cm, Paris, Institut Néerlandais
  • The copper mine, mid-16th century. , Oil on wood, 83 × 114 cm, Florence, Galleria degli Uffici
  • Christ Carrying the Cross, beginning of the 16th century. , Oil on panel, Vienna, Paintings Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts

Many Antonius temptations are attributed to him. A landscape with a copper mine, there are also similar by Lucas Gassel.

Master with the owl

Beginning of the 17th century was specified in a Dutch painter biography that Herri met de Bles "on all his works installed a owl ". He is also previously shown in a portrait collection of 1572 with a small owl. He may be identical with the painter, who was appointed on the basis of a screech owl in Italy with the nickname Il Civetta (it. Owl). Not all images of Herris met de Bles have such an artist characters. Next appeared in many stylistically different images of his time on an owl or a owl, so this feature in an image may not necessarily have its authorship by Herri.

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