| Biography of old oil painting master Denys van Alslootwhat we can copy |
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Denys van Alsloot
Belgian Mannerist painter, designer &
draftsman
born 1570 - died 1626
Also known as: Denijs van Alsloot, Denis van
Alsloot, Denijs van Alslot. |
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Denys van Alsloot, a tapestry maker's son,
pioneered the Brussels landscape school.
Denys van Alsloot joined the painters guild there in 1599,
around the same time that Denys van Alsloot was named
official painter to Archduke Albert and
Archduchess Isabella, for whom Denys van
Alsloot created
landscape paintings, images of court
festivities, and designs for at least one
set of tapestries. Alsloot's most famous and
lucrative commission was a series of
paintings recording the Ommegang, a splendid
court procession through Brussels in 1615,
during which Isabella was made Queen of the
Crossbowmen's Guild. |
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Alsloot's surviving works are rare: some
thirty paintings and a few drawings. In his
landscapes, Alsloot drew inspiration from
the forest of Soignes near Brussels.
Landscape painting of the late 1500s and the
wooded landscapes of Gillis van Coninxloo
also influenced his work. Alsloot's own
style displayed a refined handling of
foliage with a tendency to include views of
castles and abbeys from the forest of
Soignes. His paintings are usually
topographically accurate, making it possible
to identify places that survive today. The
artist Hendrick de Clerck regularly added
brightly colored figures, which often clash
with the landscapes' brown-green tonality,
to Alsloot's paintings. |
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