Aert Mytens

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Portrait of Arnoldus Mytenus (Aert Mytens) in Pictorum ... effigies , 1610

Aert Mytens (also: Arnold or Arnout and Mijtens , lat. : Arnoldus Mytenus * 1541 or 1556 in Brussels ; † 28. September 1601 in Rome ) was a Flemish painter of Mannerism , which especially in Naples and L'Aquila had . In Italy he was known as Rinaldo Fiammingo . He was the oldest member of a well-known family of painters, which also included his nephews Isaac and Daniel Mytens , as well as Jan Mytens .

Life

There is some uncertainty about the date of birth of Mytens, for a long time it was assumed that he was born around 1541, but according to recent research he was not born until 1556 (Osnabrugge 2015). One of his teachers was Pieter de Kempener.

Rosary Madonna , Museo di Capodimonte , Naples

According to Karel van Mander , Mytens went to Rome early - around 1573 to 1575 - where he worked in the workshop of Anthonis Santvoort , who was called "green Antonio" (Italian: "il verde Antonio"); Mytens was also a lot with Hans Speckaert .

He then went to Naples, where he was accepted by Cornelis de Smet . Mytens lived in his house and worked as his student or assistant until 1591.

After the death of Cornelis de Smet in October of the same year, Mytens traveled back to Flanders, where he took care of de Smet's business affairs (Osnabrugge 2015, p. 19); According to Van Mander, he (also) visited friends in Brussels and his brother in The Hague .

On June 21, 1592 he was back in Naples, where he married the widow of Smet, Margherita de Medina; she was already his second wife and through this wedding he also became brother-in-law of Teodoro d'Errico . Mytens belonged to the painters' guild of Naples from 1592–93 (Osnabrugge 2015, p. 17). He painted religious altar and devotional pictures and portraits and is said to have had many students, including DA Bruno d'Altavilla (1581) and B. Castagnera from Genoa (1586).

Karel van Mander mentioned as particularly successful works by Aert Mytens: an Assumption of the Virgin with angels and apostles for "a church near Naples" and two altar panels - a Saint Catharina and a Santa Maria del Soccorso - for the Church of San Luigi near the Palace of the Viceroy from Naples; also very beautiful pictures of the three kings and a circumcision of Christ.

Christ crowned with thorns , around 1598–99, Swedish National Museum , Stockholm

In July 1598 he left Naples and went with his children to L'Aquila in Abruzzo, where he made various paintings a. a. for the Franciscans of San Bernardino, for whom he had worked as early as 1594. His great crucifixion of Christ had great success .

From L'Aquila he went to Rome at the turn of the century, where he lived with his children in the house of Anthonis Santvoort in Via di Ripetta. On July 29, 1600 his daughter Dionora married his pupil, the painter Barent van Someren (Osnabrugge 2015, p. 30).

Aert Mytens alias Rinaldo Fiammingo died on September 28, 1601 in Rome (Osnabrugge 2015, p. 14, note 5). His daughter Dionora went to Amsterdam with her husband Barent van Someren. In her house Karel van Mander later saw a crowning of thorns by Christ of Mytens, which he praised very much and described as "very different from the normal Dutch manner"; the picture is now in the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm.

literature

  • Karel van Mander: "Het leven van Aert Mijtens, Schilder van Brussel", in: Het Schilder-boeck , Haarlem 1604, fol. 195 r., Fol. 263v. - 264 r. and fol. 300 r., "Online" (as of April 21, 2019)
  • Thieme, Ulrich & Becker, Felix (Eds.): "Mytens, Aert", in: General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present, 37 vols., Leipzig, 1907–1950, here: vol. 25, 1931, P. 316
  • A. Bredius-EW Moes: "De schildersfamilie Mytens", in: Oud Holland , 24, 1906, pp. 1-8.
  • E. Valentiner, Hans Speckaert: “A contribution to the knowledge of the Dutch in Rome around 1575”, in: Städel-Jahrbuch , 7–8, 1932, pp. 163–170
  • H. Devoghelaere: De Zuidnederlandsche schilders in het buitenland van 1450 to 1600 , Antwerp, 1944, pp. 27, 70-71.
  • Otto Benesch: "A Drawing by Arnout Mytens", in: The Burlington Magazine , 93, 1951, pp. 351-353.
  • Giovanni Previtali: La pittura del Cinquecento a Napoli e nel vicereame , Turin, 1978, p. 102 ff.
  • Anna Lo Bianco: “Mytens, Arnout”, in: La Pittura in Italia. Il Cinquecento, II , Milan, 1989, p. 779
  • Pierluigi Leone de Castris & Silvia Cassani: Pittura del cinquecento a Napoli: 1573–1606 l'ultima maniera , Electa Napoli, Naples 1991
  • Nuccia Barbone Pugliese: "La ritrovata" Assunzione della Vergine "di Aert Mytens", in: Napoli nobilissima , XXX, 1991, pp. 161, 164, 168-170
  • Stefano De Mieri: “Aert Mijtens in frammenti”, in: N. Batogi ea (ed.): Ricerche sull'arte a Napoli in età moderna (Scritti in onore di Giuseppe De Vito) , Naples, 2014, pp. 42-49
  • Marije Osnabrugge: “From itinerant to immigrant artist. Aert Mytens in Naples “, in: Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art 63 , 2013, pp. 240-263
  • Marije Osnabrugge: “Aert Mytens and the Virgin of the Rosary altarpiece for San Severo Maggiore al Pendino (1582–1584)”, in: Memorie Domenicane 44 , 2014, pp. 477–486
  • Marije Osnabrugge: Netherlandish immigrant painters in Napels (1575–1654) Aert Mytens, Louis Finson, Abraham Vinck, Hendrick De Somer and Matthias Stom , University of Amsterdam, 2015

Web links

Commons : Aert Mytens  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • "Aert Mijtens" on "rkd.nl" (accessed on April 21, 2019)
  • "Arnold (Aert) Mijtens" on "artnet" (as of April 21, 2019)
  • Rita van Dooren: "Mytens, Arnold (Aert, Arnout) dit Rinaldo Fiammingo", in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges , online at "balat.kikirpa.be" (seen on April 21, 2019)
  • List of museums and churches with pictures by Aert Mytens on "balat.kikirpa.be" (French; accessed on April 21, 2019)
  • Short bio by Aert Mytens on "sandrart.net" (accessed on April 21, 2019)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rita van Dooren: "Mytens, Arnold (Aert, Arnout) dit Rinaldo Fiammingo", in: Dictionnaire des peintres belges , online at "balat.kikirpa.be" (seen on April 21, 2019)
  2. ↑ Various forms of name from "Aert Mijtens" to "rkd.nl" (accessed April 21, 2019)
  3. ↑ Short bio by Aert Mytens on "sandrart.net" (viewed on April 21, 2019)
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Aert Mijtens" on "rkd.nl" (accessed on April 21, 2019)
  5. ↑ Short bio by Aert Mytens on "sandrart.net" (viewed on April 21, 2019)
  6. ↑ Marije Osnabrugge: Netherlandish immigrant painters in Napels (1575-1654) Aert Mytens, Louis Finson, Abraham Vinck, Hendrick De Somer and Matthias Stom , University of Amsterdam, 2015, p. 14, note 5. Here after: "Aert Mijtens" "Rkd.nl" (accessed on April 21, 2019)
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h Karel van Mander: "Het leven van Aert Mijtens, Schilder van Brussel", in: Het Schilder-boeck , Haarlem 1604, fol. 263v. - 264 r., "Online" (viewed on April 21, 2019)
  8. ↑ Van Mander calls him "Cornelis Pijp". Karel van Mander: "Het leven van Aert Mijtens, Schilder van Brussel", in: Het Schilder-boeck , Haarlem 1604, fol. 263v. - 264 r., "Online" (viewed on April 21, 2019)
  9. ↑ Susanna Falabella:  Hendricksz, Dirck (Teodoro d'Errico). In: Mario Caravale (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 61:  Guglielmo Gonzaga-Jacobini. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2003.
  10. ↑ " ... heel afgescheyden van de ghemeen Nederlandtsche manner ... ". Karel van Mander: "Het leven van Aert Mijtens, Schilder van Brussel", in: Het Schilder-boeck , Haarlem 1604, fol. 263v. - 264 r., "Online" (viewed on April 21, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Mytens, Aert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rinaldo Fiammingo; Mytens, Arnold; Mytens, Arnout; Mijtens, Aert; Arnoldus Mytenus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish mannerist painter, active in Naples
DATE OF BIRTH around 1541 or 1556
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH 1601
Place of death Rome