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| Gerard David Christ Blessing c. 1500-05 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Gerard David Madonna & Child c. 1520 Prado |
Gerard David (c. 1455-1523) was a Dutch painter who settled at an early age in the wealthy Flemish capital of Bruges. There he worked out a personal style that assimilated Italian influences. This he did so successfully that commissions came in not only from Flemish patrons but from native Italians who shipped David's altarpieces directly to Italy, a destination the artist himself never reached.
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| Gerard David Christ Taking Leave of His Mother c. 1500 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Gerard David Angel of the Annunciation 1506 Metropolitan Museum |
The Nativity triptych below, located at the Metropolitan Museum, has lost the outer panels from the backs of the two side wings. These were painted with forest landscapes, empty of figures. Art historians identify these panels as among the first non-populated landscapes ever painted in Europe. They are now owned separately by the Rijksmuseum (and displayed here below the triptych proper).
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| Gerard David Nativity with Donors & St. Jerome & St. Leonard c. 1510-15 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Gerard David Nativity with Donors & St. Jerome & St. Leonard (back of left wing) c. 1510-15 Rijksmuseum |
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| Gerard David Nativity with Donors & St. Jerome & St. Leonard (back of right wing) c. 1510-15 Rijksmuseum |
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| Gerard David Virgin among the Virgins 1509 Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Gerard David Madonna & Child with Four Angels c. 1510-15 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Gerard David The Judgment of Cambyses (panel 1) 1498 Groeningemuseum |
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| Gerard David The Judgment of Cambyses (panel 2) 1498 Groeningemuseum |
The two-panel work above tells a story from Herodotus concerning the arrest and flaying of the corrupt Persian judge Sisamnes on the orders of the ruler Cambyses. The pair were originally hung publicly in Bruges as admonition and warning to Flemish officials of that day.
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| Gerard David Rest on the Flight into Egypt c. 1510 National Gallery of Art (U.S.) |
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| Gerard David Lamentation c. 1495-1500 National Gallery of Art (U.K.) |
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| Gerard David Transfiguration c. 1520 Church of Our Lady, Bruges |
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| Gerard David Madonna & Child with Angels c. 1520 Prado |