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Petrus Christus
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Flemish painter (c.1410-1475)
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Petrus Christus, also known as Petrus Cristus, was a male painter and illuminator from the Early Netherlandish painting movement. Born in Baarle, he held citizenship in the Southern Netherlands. His professional career was centered in Bruges, where he also died on September 2, 1475.
His notable works include *A Goldsmith in His Shop* and *Portrait of a Young Girl*. His artworks are held in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Museo del Prado, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He is described in sources such as the *Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie* and the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary*.
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Biografia de Petrus Christus o Cristus
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Petrus
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Southern Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Baarle
- Place of death
- Bruges
- Occupation
- illuminator
- Field of work
- Dutch painting
- Movement
- Early Netherlandish painting
- Image
- Petrus christus, ritratto d'uomo con falcone.jpg
- Work location
- Bruges
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- Commons category
- Petrus Christus
- date of birth
- 1415-01-01
- date of death
- 1475-00-00
- Commons Creator page
- Petrus Christus
- topic's main category
- Category:Petrus Christus
- name in native language
- Petrus Christus
- described at URL
- vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/makers/petrus-christus
- name
- Petrus Cristus
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Works in European collections
27 objects attributed to Petrus Christus, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Possible self-portrait Petrus Christus ( Dutch: [ˈpeːtrʏs ˈkrɪstʏs, ˈxrɪs-]; c. 1410/1420 – c. 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges from 1444, where, along with Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck. He was influenced by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden and is noted for his innovations with linear perspective and a meticulous technique which seems derived from miniatures and manuscript illumination. Today, some 30 works are confidently attributed to him. The best known include the Portrait of a Carthusian (1446) and Portrait of a Young Girl (c. 1470); both are highly innovative in the presentation of the figure against detailed, rather than flat, backgrounds.
For the period between the death of Jan van Eyck in 1441 and Hans Memling's establishment in the city in the mid-1460s, Christus was the leading painter in Bruges, which was then the leading Netherlandish centre of painting.
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