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Flemish school; second third of the 17th century. "The Last Judgment": Oil on canvas. Relined. Presents faults and Repainting. Measurements: 207 x 178 cm. The author of this work recreates the Final Judgment following the Renaissance iconography, with a composition ordered in two planes, the heavenly and the earthly. Above, in the center, Christ appears as judge, raising his hand in blessing as a sign of authority, seated on a cloud. He is accompanied, on both sides, by Saint Joseph, and the Virgin, intercessor for humanity in the Judgment. Completing the upper plane, on either side, are religious groups. In the lower plane, the large size of the figures stands out. This is due to the fact that the author has tried to represent pictorially the greater distance between the spectator and the sky, which after all is over his head. Saints and martyrs appear on this lower plane. The work is based on the painting of the Last Judgment in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Chile, painted by Marten de Vos (Antwerp, 1532-1603), a Flemish painter known mainly for his allegorical paintings and portraits. He was, along with the brothers Ambrosius Francken I and Frans Francken I, one of the leading history painters of the Spanish Netherlands. De Vos was a prolific draughtsman and produced numerous designs for the Antwerp printers. These circulated widely in Europe and the Spanish colonies and contributed to his international reputation and influence. His designs were also used as models for tapestries and stained glass. In the 1580s he produced multiple designs for engravings and book illustrations. From Mannerism, his style evolved to become clear and descriptive, in perfect correspondence with the ideas of the Counter-Reformation.His brother Pieter de Vos was also a painter and some works previously attributed to Maerten de Vos have been tentatively re-attributed to this brother or the so-called pseudo-de Vos. The so-called Marten de Vos Sketchbook (c. 1560; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) containing copies of earlier drawings of classical works of art has now been attributed to the circle of Frans Floris. Following the iconoclastic depredations of the Beeldenstorm, which reached its climax in 1566 and resulted in the destruction of much of the art in the churches of Flanders, de Vos became one of the artists charged with redecorating the plundered churches with new altarpieces. Many of these, such as St. Luke Painting the Virgin (1602), painted for the altar of the Guild of St. Luke in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp (now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp) to replace one on the same subject painted by Quinten Metsys and destroyed more than 20 years earlier, and the Wedding at Cana (1597), painted for the guild of wine merchants, were commissioned by leading Antwerp organizations.

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Flemish school; second third of the 17th century. "The Last Judgment": Oil on canvas. Relined. Presents faults and Repainting. Measurements: 207 x 178 cm. The author of this work recreates the Final Judgment following the Renaissance iconography, with a composition ordered in two planes, the heavenly and the earthly. Above, in the center, Christ appears as judge, raising his hand in blessing as a sign of authority, seated on a cloud. He is accompanied, on both sides, by Saint Joseph, and the Virgin, intercessor for humanity in the Judgment. Completing the upper plane, on either side, are religious groups. In the lower plane, the large size of the figures stands out. This is due to the fact that the author has tried to represent pictorially the greater distance between the spectator and the sky, which after all is over his head. Saints and martyrs appear on this lower plane. The work is based on the painting of the Last Judgment in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Chile, painted by Marten de Vos (Antwerp, 1532-1603), a Flemish painter known mainly for his allegorical paintings and portraits. He was, along with the brothers Ambrosius Francken I and Frans Francken I, one of the leading history painters of the Spanish Netherlands. De Vos was a prolific draughtsman and produced numerous designs for the Antwerp printers. These circulated widely in Europe and the Spanish colonies and contributed to his international reputation and influence. His designs were also used as models for tapestries and stained glass. In the 1580s he produced multiple designs for engravings and book illustrations. From Mannerism, his style evolved to become clear and descriptive, in perfect correspondence with the ideas of the Counter-Reformation.His brother Pieter de Vos was also a painter and some works previously attributed to Maerten de Vos have been tentatively re-attributed to this brother or the so-called pseudo-de Vos. The so-called Marten de Vos Sketchbook (c. 1560; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) containing copies of earlier drawings of classical works of art has now been attributed to the circle of Frans Floris. Following the iconoclastic depredations of the Beeldenstorm, which reached its climax in 1566 and resulted in the destruction of much of the art in the churches of Flanders, de Vos became one of the artists charged with redecorating the plundered churches with new altarpieces. Many of these, such as St. Luke Painting the Virgin (1602), painted for the altar of the Guild of St. Luke in the Cathedral of Our Lady in Antwerp (now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp) to replace one on the same subject painted by Quinten Metsys and destroyed more than 20 years earlier, and the Wedding at Cana (1597), painted for the guild of wine merchants, were commissioned by leading Antwerp organizations.

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