The Brunswick Monogrammist or Master of the Brunswick Monogram was an anonymous Netherlandish Renaissance painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century. He (or she) painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes, and has been called "the most significant precursor of Pieter Bruegel the Elder".Braunschweiger Monogrammist, Bordellszene , Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved 4 September 2009
Identity
The monogram for which the Brunswick Monogrammist is named appears only once, on his (or her) Parable of the Great Supper in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick. It is composed of the interlocked letters J, V, A, M, S and L,Elise L. Smith. "Brunswick Monogrammist" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 12/4/07, http://www.groveart.com/ and neither it nor careful analysis of his work have yielded consensus about his identity. His (or her, as Verhulst was female) paintings have been attributed to a number of painters, including Jan van Hemessen, Mayken Verhulst and Jan van Amstel.Collection: Dr. Herbert & Monika Schaefer: Selected Works. New Haven: Mountain View Press. 1998. 32.Bloch, Vitale. "A Luteplayer by Jan van Hemessen" The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 98, No. 645. (Dec., 1956), pp. 445–447.
Partial list of works A Brothel Scene (New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery)Collection: Dr. Herbert & Monika Schaefer: Selected Works. New Haven: Mountain View Press. 1998. A Dispute in a Brothel (Sold in May 2007 at Christie's Amsterdam) St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness (Sold December 2005 at Christie's London) Ecce Homo (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) The Feeding of the Poor or Feeding of the Five Thousand or Parable of the Great Supper (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.) Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel (London, National Gallery) Tavern Scene (Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz) Road to Calvary Brothel scene, 1537, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
See also Early Renaissance painting Renaissance in the Netherlands
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