Art History: Flemish School: (1600 - 1800)
The Flemish style of art began in the 15th century and was inspired by the manuscript illumination and art of the Burgundian court.
Flemish School
Characterised by idealism and experimentation with perspective, Flemish Art thrived in the 15th century with artists such as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling and Dirk Bouts.
Josquin Desprez - often known simply as Josquin - is the centrepiece of this period, the greatest composer of the Franco-Flemish School and ot the early Renaissance.
Antwerp became the principal centre of the Flemish school which was gradually won over to Italianism. Quentin Massys (1465/66-1530) and the landscape painter Joachim Patenier (d. 1524) were the first representatives.
This type of easel-art flourished during the High Italian Renaissance, and in the Northern Renaissance among the Dutch and Flemish schools, as portable art media like panel paintings and canvases began to replace mural frescoes.
He was considered the founder of the Flemish school of painting of the late medieval period which was famous for its meticulous concern with fine detail and its achievement of intense realism.
The Hope Collection of Pictures of the Dutch and Flemish Schools with Descriptions Reprinted from the Catalogue Published in 1891 by the Science and Art Department of the South Kensington Museum. London, 1898: LXXVI, repro.
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A great contrast to the painting by Memling is the one by Hieronymus (or Jerome) Bosch. He was a Dutch artist who lived somewhat later than Memling. His work was influenced by the Flemish school of painting.
 See also: School, Painting, Roman, Sculpture, Renaissance
  
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