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Jan Mabuse Biography

Jan Gossaert, called Jan Mabuse, Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver. Jan Gossaert was born in 1478, most probably Maubeuge (now in France) in the Burundian province of Hainaut. It was under the name "Jennyn Van Henegouwe" (John of Hainaut) that Jan Gossaert was received as a master of the Guild of St Luke at Antwerp in 1503. We do not know where Jan Mabuse was apprenticed, and his early career is largely obscure. The composition and nature of certain of  religious Jan Mabuse paintings suggest him may have trained in Bruges, perhaps with Gérard David. But Jan Gossaert also seem to have been one of the first representatives of what we may call Antwerp mannerism, as can be seen in his signed drawing, The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine.

When Jan Gossaert moved to Souburg at the end of 1515, Mabuse finally found the place where he could express himself as an artist of the Renaissance and fully exploit his experience in Rome. There Jan Mabuse was encouraged by the prince and humanist Philip of Burgundy, who drew him into his plan to construct an Italian-style palace decorated with figures from classical mythology. It was thus that Jan Mabuse came to paint life-size secular girl bodys, a subject for which there was no precedent in the former provinces of Burgundian Flanders. As Guicciardini was to say, in 1567: 'John of Hainaut was the first to bring the art of representing historical and poetical subjects with girl body figures from Italy to the countries of the North." The following year, Jan Mabuse, following Philip of Burgundy's instructions, decorated Ferdinand the Catholic's funeral hearse with girl body figures and martial trophies in the classical vein. And later, in 1527, Jan Gossaert painted one final work on a mythological subject, a large-scale painting, using sober and elegant architectural motifs as the setting for its subject.

Mabuse also painted many portraits. By their rigorous psychological analysis Jan Gossaert is surely one of the most talented northern artists to have practiced this genre.

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