Jan Gossart was a Dutch artist active in the early 16th century. It is often known by several other name variations: Jennyn van Hennegouwe, Jan Gossaert, Jan Mabuse (a name which he by his birthplace in Maubeuge, now a part of France applied) or simply "Mabuse".
Although strongly influenced by his predecessor, Jan Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, Gossart was a key figure in the integration of Italian painting techniques and mythological subject in Flemish art.
He was one of the most experienced and innovative artists of the Northern Renaissance. He was found intimate portraits in particular his playful, illusionistic uses of outer space, obviously in his religious tableaux and in its striking.
The Metropolitan Museum of art in New York, together with the National Gallery, London, the first major exhibition of Gossart's work in nearly 50 years, has organized man myth and sensual pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance.It is a gallery of images from the exhibition here.
You can see a video on the met's page of the exhibition in the in the restore of one of Gossart's portraits (image up, down go) to discuss his techniques for creating spatial depth and his use of restricted create color ranges in strikingly realistic textures.
Gossart is also known for his drawings, of which there are several in the exhibition, created its effective use of two colors of brown reddish-brown ink in the same image in chalk, pen, brush and various Brown Tinten.besonders interesting if the exhibition is get you to see.
Man myth and sensual pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance to the Metropolitan Museum of art in New York until January 17, 2011 and will be on display at the National Gallery, London from 23 February to 30 may, 2011.
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