Hugo Van der Goes

Hugo Van der Goes (1440 - 1482) is a Flemish painter of the Burgundian Netherlands.

The first unquestionable information on the painter locates it in 1468 at Bruges, where he collaborates in the decoration of the festivals in the honor of the weddings of the duke of Burgundy Charles Bold the. Between 1476 and 1477, it carries out for Tommaso Portinari, representative of the Médicis in Bruges, its most important work: the triptych Portinari (Florence, Offices), whose great dimensions are completely strange for the painting of the time.

Beside this work, that one allots to him without hesitation, the stylistic analysis makes it possible to allot only few tables illustrating the culture of the artist, influenced by Jan Van Eyck and Rogier Van der Weyden, as in the diptych of Vienna (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum). Later, Hugo Van der Goes knows without any doubt certain contemporary Italian works, and this contact the influence in the sense that it leads to a more monumental ordinance of space, such as one recognizes it for example in the Worship of the Magi (Berlin, Gemäldegalerie).

In 1477, struck by a mental disease, the artist withdraws himself like brother convers with the Abbaye of the Red-Cloister close to Brussels, but does not stop its activity completely. It is indeed of this period that date the Death of the Virgin (Bruges, Groeningen Museum), where shows through an acuter dramatic tension, translated by the irrepressible expressive animation of the characters.

Works

the Furnace bridge of the Trinity , four panels, 1478, Royal Collection, Great Britain
the Fall and Lamentation , Diptych on wood, C. 1470-75, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Portrait of a giver , collection H.O. Havemeyer, legacy of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929, Metropolitan Museum off Art, New York
Its works with the Offices of Florence

External bonds

Some works on Artcyclopedia
Some works on WebMuseum

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