Back to the Renaissance! Born in 1492 in Brussels, Bernard Van Orley painted this Annunciation in 1518. You can find it in the National Museum of Norway.
From the museum's website:
Bernard van Orley is regarded as one of the most important Flemish painters in the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance north of the Alps. One of the first artists to visit Italy and be inspired by the ideals of the Renaissance, he was hailed by his contemporaries as the “Raphael of the Low Countries”. His paintings are typified by their meticulous details and vivid colours. He also emphasized a sense of space influenced by the Renaissance’s interest in linear perspective and the architecture of antiquity. Van Orley ran a large studio with many assistants in both Antwerp and Brussels. He served intermittently as a court painter, first for Margaret of Austria, the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands, and subsequently for her successor, Mary of Hungary.
Text: Frithjof Bringager
From "Highlights. Art from Antiquity to 1945", Nasjonalmuseet 2014, ISBN 978-82-8154-088-0
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