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Gillis van Valckenborch BIOGRAPHY
1570 - 1622 Frankfurt. Known for: Battle scenes, feasts of gods, carnival processions.
Gillis van Valckenborch was born into a renowned family of artists, including his father Marten, brother Frederik, and uncle Lucas van Valckenborch the Elder. He spent most of his career in Germany... Read full biography
Gillis van Valckenborch was born into a renowned family of artists, including his father Marten, brother Frederik, and uncle Lucas van Valckenborch the Elder. He spent most of his career in Germany and is best known for his large compositions of ancient history and mythology scenes. While he also... Read full biography
Gillis van Valckenborch was born into a renowned family of artists, including his father Marten, brother Frederik, and uncle Lucas van Valckenborch the Elder. He spent most of his career in Germany and is best known for his large compositions of ancient history and mythology scenes. While he also showed interest in landscape paintings, only a few have been attributed to him. The present work discussed in the text is part of a smaller group of landscape paintings attributed to him.Alexander... Read full biography
Gillis van Valckenborch was born into a renowned family of artists, including his father Marten, brother Frederik, and uncle Lucas van Valckenborch the Elder. He spent most of his career in Germany and is best known for his large compositions of ancient history and mythology scenes. While he also showed interest in landscape paintings, only a few have been attributed to him. The present work discussed in the text is part of a smaller group of landscape paintings attributed to him.Alexander Wied's attribution based on a similar composition in the Museé Bossuet in Meaux.
Gillis van Valckenborch was born into a renowned family of artists, including his father Marten, brother Frederik, and uncle Lucas van Valckenborch the Elder. He spent most of his career in Germany and is best known for his large compositions of ancient history and mythology scenes. While he also showed interest in landscape paintings, only a few have been attributed to him. The present work discussed in the text is part of a smaller group of landscape paintings attributed to him.Alexander Wied's attribution based on a similar composition in the Museé Bossuet in Meaux.
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Gillis van Valckenborch was born into a renowned family of artists, including his father Marten, brother Frederik, and uncle Lucas van Valckenborch the Elder. He spent most of his career in Germany and is best known for his large compositions of ancient history and mythology scenes. While he also showed interest in landscape paintings, only a few have been attributed to him. The present work discussed in the text is part of a smaller group of landscape paintings attributed to him.Alexander Wied's attribution based on a similar composition in the Museé Bossuet in Meaux.