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Portrait of Elisabeth Bellinghausen Print by Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Portrait of Elisabeth Bellinghausen

The Coronation of the Virgin Print by Barthel Bruyn the Elder

The Coronation of the Virgin

Portrait of Johannes Draconites Print by Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Portrait of Johannes Draconites

Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Malta Print by Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Malta

Portrait of a Woman Print by Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Portrait of a Woman

Cardinal Bernardo Clesio Print by Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Cardinal Bernardo Clesio

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A Man, probably of the Strauss Family

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The Virgin, Saints and a Holy Woman

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Portrait of a Lady with daughter

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Portrait of a woman

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Portrait of a young woman

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Portrait of a Man with Three Sons

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Skull in a niche

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Burgomaster Arnold von Brauweiler

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Portrait of Scholar Petrus von Clapis

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Coronation of the Virgin

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Portrait of a Noblewoman

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Portrait of a Young Woman

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Portrait of a Man

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Portrait of a Woman

Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Vanitas Still-Life

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Cardinal Bernhardus Celsius (1485-1539)

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Gerhard von Westerburg (1486 - after 1539)

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The Resurrection

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Portrait of a semi-nude woman

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Anne of Cleeves

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Woman holding a silver filigree rosary

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Portrait of a Woman

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Diptych with portraits of the Salsburg couple (right side: Helena Salsburg)

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Portrait of a Young Man with gloves

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Peter Heimbach († 1557) six times mayor of Cologne and Cologne councilor in the period 1521-1556

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Adoration of the Magi

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Portrait of a Man

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Portrait of Elisabeth Bellinghausen (c.1520- > 1570)

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Altarpiece

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The Adoration of the Magi

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Crucifixion

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The Deposition

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Katharina von Gail (maiden name: of Mülheim), Philipp von Gail (1498-1558) wife, and her two daughter

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Portrait of Wilhelm Kannengiesser

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Pietà

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The Annunciation

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Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene

Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Portrait of a man holding a carnation and a glove

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Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Malta Print by Barthel Bruyn the Elder

Portrait of a Knight of the Order of Malta

Bartholomäus Bruyn (1493–1555), usually called Barthel Bruyn or Barthel Bruyn the Elder, was a German Renaissance painter active in Cologne. He painted altarpieces and portraits, and was Cologne's foremost portrait painter in the sixteenth century.

He was born in Wesel or Cologne.[1] His early works suggest that he received his artistic training in the Lower Rhine.[2] His earliest documented altarpiece is a Coronation of the Virgin (1515–16) commissioned by Dr. Peter von Clapis, a professor at the University of Cologne.[1] Bruyn’s altarpieces of the 1510s and 1520s are influenced by the style of Jan Joest—to whom Bruyn was related—and often emulate Joest’s habit of illuminating his figures from below.[1] By the time Bruyn painted the Essen altarpiece (1522–25) he had combined Joest's influence with that of Joos van Cleve. In the 1530s, he developed a more Italianate style that reflects the examples of Raphael and Michelangelo, which he probably knew only at second hand through the engravings of Marcantonio Raimondi and as filtered through the works of such artists as Jan van Scorel and Martin van Heemskerck.[1]

Bruyn is especially noted for his portraits. He was the first important portrait painter in Cologne, and the founder of a prolific school of portraiture that was continued by his sons Arnt and Barthel Bruyn the Younger.[1] Bruyn's depictions of the upper-middle-class citizens of Cologne are "lively and expressive, and they show no vain flattery".[1] His subjects are usually portrayed at half-length against a flat background; the face is the center of attention, but costume details are crisply described, and prominence is given to the hands. Bruyn did not sign his portraits, and some of them have in the past been misattributed to Hans Holbein, whose influence is apparent in Bruyn's works after 1539.[1]

Barthel Bruyn was a respected citizen of Cologne and active throughout his life in civic affairs. He was elected to the City Council in 1549 and 1553, and died a wealthy man.[2] His works are in numerous public collections, including the National Gallery, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; and the Louvre in Paris.[3]


References and sources

References

Oxford Art Online
Lübbeke 1991, p. 405.

Murray and Murray 1997, p. 71.

Sources

Lübbeke, Isolde. 1991. Early German painting 1350-1550: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. London: Philip Wilson. ISBN 0-85667-376-5
Murray, Peter, and Linda Murray. 1997. The Penguin dictionary of art and artists. London, England: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-051300-0
Oxford Art Online: "Bartholomäus Bruyn"

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