Pseudo-bles

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Pseudo-Bles: The beheading of John the Baptist, oil on wood, Berlin, State Museums of Prussian Cultural Heritage

As a pseudo-Bles is a Flemish referred painter who in 1520 in Antwerp worked. The works attributed to him make him one of the main exponents of a style which the members of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke, summarized in art history under the term Antwerp Mannerists , represented at the beginning of the 16th century. These painters are at the transition from Gothic to Renaissance .

Naming

Pseudo-Bles got its emergency name after a signature Henricus Blesius f. , according to which a picture of the Adoration of the Magi in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich was assigned to Hendrick met de Bles . As time went on, additional images were ascribed to Bles around this worship. However, the signature turned out to be incorrect in 1911 and was added later and was not really proven. Even the owl, handed down as a master's mark by Karel van Mander for Bles, which was to be found in pictures, did not convince that all the pictures related to the Munich Adoration really came from Bles.

The art historian Max J. Friedländer then stylistically allowed the image of adoration to exist as the core work of a group of works created by one and the same master. To distinguish this artist from the wicked Bles, he created the name Pseudo-Bles . In the history of art, Friedländer was not the only one who continued to investigate which of these pictures came from Pseudo-Bles or from other painters of the Mannerists and their circle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Latin Henricus Blesius fecit , thus created by Heinrich Bles
  2. ↑ Max J. Friedländer: Die Antwerpener Manneristen von 1520 , In: Jahrbuch der Königs Prussischen Kunstsammlungen 36 (1915), pp. 65–91.

literature

  • Max J. Friedländer: The Antwerp Mannerists from 1520 , Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections 36 (1915), pp. 65–91.
  • Max J. Friedländer: The Dutch Mannerists . Leipzig, 1921
  • Max J. Friedländer: The Old Dutch Painting, The Antwerp Mannerists, Adriaen Ysenbrandt Leiden, 1934
  • H. Devisscher, Pseudo-Bles . In: J. Turner (Ed.), The Dictionary of Art, London / New York 1996, p. 750

Web links

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