PROVOST, Jan
(b. ca. 1465, Mons, d. 1529, Bruges)

The Martyrdom of St Catherine

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Oil on panel, 94 x 68 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

Jan Provost's Martyrdom of Saint Catherine - the pendant of St Catherine Disputing with the Emperor and the Fifty Philosophers in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam - is a colourful mixture of tradition and innovation. Provost was a painter, cartographer and architect, who met Albrecht Dürer in Antwerp in 1520.