Exploration: Gothic
Era (Gothic
and Early Renaissance)
PAINTING
Melchior Broederlam
Melchior Broederlam (b Ypres, c. 1355; d Ypres, c. 1411).
South Netherlandish painter. Broederlam’s family, long-established in
Ypres, provided three aldermen for the city and sided with the French
Counts of Flanders against the Flemish populace. After a training that
may have included contact with Jan Boudolf in Bruges before 1368 or
Paris after 1370 and an extended visit to Italy, the artist became, by
1381, an official painter of the reigning count, Louis de Male (reg.
1346–84), painting leather chairs, pennons and banners. On 13 May 1384,
directly after Louis’s death, he was appointed a valet de chambre
to the count’s heir, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and in 1385 was
sent to live in the castle at Hesdin, Artois, in order to supervise the
rebuilding of its galleries of entertainment and to paint the walls
according to a plan devised by Philip himself.
The Dijon Altarpiece
1393-99
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The Dijon Altarpiece
The Annunciation (detail)
1393-99
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The Dijon Altarpiece
The Annunciation (detail)
1393-99
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The Dijon Altarpiece
The Visitation (detail)
1393-99
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The Dijon Altarpiece
The Annunciation (detail)
1393-99
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The Dijon Altarpiece
The Presentation of Christ (detail)
1393-99
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The Dijon Altarpiece
The Flight into Egypt (detail)
1393-99
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
The Dijon Altarpiece
The Flight into Egypt (detail)
1393-99
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
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