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GOSSART, Jan (b. ca. 1478, Maubeuge, d. 1532, Middelburg) |
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Jean Carondelet1503-08Oil on oak panel, 40 x 29 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio | |
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Jean II Carondelet (1469-1545), was a Burgundian cleric, politician, jurist and one of the most important advisors to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. He was a patron of Erasmus and a brother of Ferry Carondelet. This sensitively rendered portrait shows the hallmarks of Gossart's early style: the tightly cropped composition; the plain, dark background; the conservative pose of the sitter, which emulates earlier examples from Bruges, namely, portraits by Hans Memling. | |
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