Lancelot Blondeel

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Saint Luke portrays the Virgin by Lancelot Blondeel, Groeningemuseum, 1545

Lancelot Blondeel, also Lanceloot (1498 – 4 March 1561), was a Flemish painter, architect, surveyor and cartographer.

Blondeel was born in Poperinge, but established himself as an artist at Bruges. He became a member of the painters' guild in 1519. He primarily painted commissioned religious themed works for local churches. In 1550 Blondeel and Jan van Scorel were commissioned to restore Jan van Eyck's celebrated Ghent Altarpiece. He founded in 1549 two triumphal arches, commissioned by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, based on the Roman style. He also designed a canal that linked Bruges to the sea, a project that greatly promoted Bruges trade. It is known that he had a daughter named Anna, who later married his pupil Pieter Pourbus. Blondeel died in Bruges on 4 March 1561.

Works

• Triptyque avec les saints Côme et Damien, Bruges, Sint-Jacobskerk. (1523)
• Triptyque avec l’Histoire de la Sainte Croix, Furnes, Niklasskerk
• Les Sept Joies de Notre-Dame, Tournai, cathédrale Notre-Dame (peut-être en collaboration avec Pierre Pourbus)
• Martyre d’un saint, New York, private collection (1548 ou 1558)
• Le Calvaire, Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts
• Vierge à l’Enfant avec saint Luc et saint Éloi, Bruges, Sint-Salvatorskathedraal (1545)
• Saint Luc peignant la Vierge, Bruges, Groeningemuseum (1545)
• Le Bon Samaritain, Bruges, Sint-Janshospitaal

Bibliography (unreferenced)

• W.H.J. Weale, 'Lancelot Blondeel', The Burlington Magazine 14 (1908), p. 96-101 en 160-166
• W.H.J. Weale, 'Lancelot Blondeel, Pictor Brugensis Praestantissimus', The Burlington Magazine 18 (1911), p. 297 (recensie)
• J. Duverger, E. Roobaert, 'Lancelot Blondeel (1498-1561). Zijn rol en betekenis', Gentse bijdragen tot de kunstgeschiedenis en de oudheidkunde 18 (1959-'60), p. 95-105
• K.G. Bon, 'Lancelot Blondeel as a designer for sculpture and textiles', Hafnia. Copenhagen papers in the history of art nr. 4, 1976, p. 113-123
• B.C. van den Boogert, 'De triomfen van de keizer. De verheerlijking van Karel V en de toepassing van antieke motieven in de Nederlandse kunst', in: B.C. van den Boogert, J. Kerkhoff e.a., cat.tent. Maria van Hongarije. *Koningin tussen keizers en kunstenaars, 1505-1558, Utrecht (Museum Catharijneconvent) / 's-Hertogenbosch (Noordbrabants Museum) 1993, p. 220-268
• 'Bijzondere aanwinst voor het groeningemuseum. Lanceloot Blondeel, "De dood van Generaal Crassus", midden 16de eeuw', Brugge Stedelijke en Museumvrienden Bulletin 20 (2000), nr. 2, p. 16
• L. Jansen, 'Lanceloot Blondeel en de Generale Reglen de architecturen van Pieter Coecke van Aelst', Desipientia 9 (2002), nr. 1, p. 36-41

External links

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