Herri met de Bles

Herri met de Bles (also known as Herri de Dinant, Herry de Patinir, and Civetta) (c. 1510 – c. 1555–1560) was a Flemish Northern Renaissance and Mannerist landscape painter.

Very little is positively known about the artist. He is believed to be a certain Herry de Patenir who joined Antwerp's Guild of St. Luke in 1535 as a painter and is also believed to be a court painter for the d'Este Dukes of Ferrara, where he ended his career known as "Il Civetta". He contributed, along with his possible-uncle Joachim Patinir, to a distinct style of Northern Renaissance landscape painting that combined small history or religious scenes into compositions defined by perspective and atmospheric effects. Also, along with a group of Antwerp-based followers of Hieronymus Bosch that included Jan Mandyn, Pieter Huys, and Jan Wellens de Cock, Met de Bles continued the tradition of fantastic imagery into northern Mannerism.

References

* Hans Devisscher: "Bles [Blesio, Blesius, Blessio; de Dinant, de Patinir] , Herri met de [Henri, Henrico; Herry (met de)] [Civetta] " "Grove Art Online". Oxford University Press, [accessed 16 May, 2007] .
* Norman E. Muller (Ed.): "Herri met de Bles: Studies and Explorations of the World Landscape Tradition". Brepols, Turnhout 1998, ISBN 0-943012-25-2
* Michel Weemans. "Herri met de Bles's sleeping peddler: an exegetical and anthropomorphic landscape". "Art Bulletin", Sept 2006.

External links

* [http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/b/bles/index.html Web Gallery of Art: Paintings by Herri met de Bles]