Joachim Patenier
Born – Netherlands, c.1485
Died – Antwerp, Belgium 1524
Patenier is notable for producing some of the first Flemish paintings in which landscape takes precedence over figures. He was described by Dürer, whom he met in 1521, as a “good landscape painter” and many works have been attributed to, but few signed by him. Very little is known about his early life. He became a member of the Antwerp guild in 1515 and collaborated with a number if artists, either painting landscape backgrounds for them or having them paint figures into his work. Specific narrative made the subjects of his paintings but it is the environments in which the unfolding of respective stories takes place which dominate. Scenes such as Charon Crossing and River Styx reveal Patenier’s attention to detail, which is a mixture of imaginative fantasy and observation from nature. It has a quality which owes something to the strangeness of Bosch and offers a panoramic view that foreshadows the achievements of Claude. His precision and attention to systematic colouring in order to describe depth and recession is evidence of his importance in developing the formal elements in the depiction of landscape as a subject in its own right.
Masterpieces:
- St Jerome in a Rocky Landscape
- The Temptation of St Anthony
Text: The A-Z of Art, Nicola Hodge and Libby Anson.
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Early Netherlandish Painting: Joos van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patenier (2 vols.)
Max J. Friedlander
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Early Netherlandish Painting: Volume IX: Joos Van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patenier
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Joos van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patenier (Early Netherlandish Painting, Vol. 9, Part 2)
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