Patinir, Joachim

Patinir, Joachim

▪ Flemish painter
Patinir also spelled  Patinier, or Patenier  
born c. 1485, Bouvignes, near Dinan, Namur
died Oct. 5, 1524, Antwerp

      painter, the first Western artist known to have specialized in landscape painting. Little is known of his early life, but his work reflects an early knowledge of the painting of Gerard David, the last of the Early Netherlandish painters. He may have studied under Hieronymus Bosch, the painter of fantastic allegories and landscapes.

      Patinir seems to have made a practice of supplying landscape settings for figure compositions painted by other Flemish masters, but the only known example of his collaborations is the “Temptation of St. Anthony” (c. 1520–24; Prado, Madrid), in which Quentin Massys (Massys, Quentin) painted the figures. He did not, however, paint pure landscape pictures, and all his work has a nominal religious subject. Its novelty, anticipated in a different vein by Bosch, lay in the fact that the religious motif in such works as the “Flight into Egypt” (1515–20; Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp), the “St. Christopher” (c. 1515–24; Prado, Madrid), and the “St. Jerome” (Prado) was much reduced in scale and immersed in the phenomena of the natural world. The basic elements of his landscape style—the high viewpoint overlooking vast tracts, where earthy brown foregrounds merge into woodland and meadow greens and again into the hazy blues of distant mountains—do not differ from those of his predecessors, particularly Gerard David. Yet the picturesque melancholy with which he invests the woods and rivers and the great ghostly rocks that jut up abruptly in the middle distance of such paintings as his “Baptism of Christ” (c. 1515–20; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) and his “Crossing the Styx” (c. 1520–24; Prado) strike a personal note that won Patinir instant success and many imitators. Patinir's favourite subject was the “Rest on the Flight Into Egypt,” which he depicted in many versions.

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