COLLECTION NAME:
Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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ArtArtHiAAH~7~7
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Image Record ID:
aahi0001216
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aahi0001216
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Work Title (display):
Virgin and Child in an Interior
Image Title:
full view
Work Dates (display):
ca. 1450-1455
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2006-09-25
Work Creator (display):
Petrus Christus (South Netherlandish, born ca. 1410, died 1475 or 1476)
Work Creator gender:
male
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male
Work Creator gender
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Work Creator notes (display):
Netherlandish painter, active in Bruges from 1444, and the leading painter there after the death of Jan van Eyck. He follows closely the style of his contemporaries, particularly van Eyck, whose works he may have copied or completed. Several works are signed and dated. His intimate Portrait of a Man (London, NG) is detailed with microscopic precision and the sitter is, unusually, placed by an open window overlooking a landscape. A portrait of a Carthusian (1446; New York, Met. Mus.) is a dramatically lit close-up of a figure whose gaze engages directly with the spectator; the intervening space is bridged, in the manner of van Eyck, by a trompe l'œil fly placed on an illusionistic parapet. Petrus Christus' skilled depiction of familiar settings and interiors is seen in the Virgin and Child in an Interior (Kansas City, Mo., Nelson Atkins Mus. of Art), which recalls van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (London, NG) while employing deep perspectival recession and airy spaciousness. His debt to Rogier van der Weyden is evident from his Lamentation (Brussels, Mus. Royaux). Here he takes over motifs from Rogier's emotional and tightly constructed Descent from the Cross in the Prado, Madrid, but produces a composition which is restrained, even stiff, but with beautifully observed details, and a panoramic, distantly receding landscape. Smith, Marilyn. "Christus, Petrus." The Oxford Companion to Western Art. Ed. Hugh Brigstocke. Oxford Art Online. 27 Oct. 2008 .
Work Style Period:
Netherlandish Renaissance-Baroque styles
work_styleperiod
Netherlandish Renaissance-Baroque styles
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false
Work Style Period:
15th century
work_styleperiod
15th century
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Work Subject:
bedrooms
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bedrooms
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Work Subject:
Madonna and Child
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Madonna and Child
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Work Subject:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
subject
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Work Subject
false
Work Subject:
Jesus Christ
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Jesus Christ
Work Subject
false
Work Worktype:
oil paintings
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oil paintings
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Work Worktype:
paintings (visual works)
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
paintings
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paintings
Work Category (VRC classification)
false
Work Material and Technique (display):
oil on panel
Work Measurements (display):
69.5 cm (H) x 50.8 cm (W)
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
Richard L. Nelson Gallery
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Kansas City, Missouri
Image Source Reproduction citation:
Apollo, Dec. 1972. (unconfirmed)
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Apollo, Dec. 1972. (unconfirmed)
Image Source Reproduction citation
false
Image Rights (display):
unknown
Image Rights fair use checklist:
1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
Work Rights (display):
public domain
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado at Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
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