Geertgen Tot Sint Jans John the Baptist in the Wilderness Painting ID:: 2058 Geertgen Tot Sint Jans1.jpg
John the Baptist in the Wilderness Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans The Raising of Lazarus (mk05) Painting ID:: 20045 new5/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-582289.jpg
The Raising of Lazarus (mk05) Wood 50 x 38 1/4''(127 x 97 cm)Acquired in 1902
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans St John the Baptist in the Widerness (mk08) Painting ID:: 21256 new6/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-787453.jpg
St John the Baptist in the Widerness (mk08) c.1485-1490
Oil on wood,42x28cm
Berlin,Gemaldegalerie,Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Preubischer Kulturbeitz
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans St.Bavo Painting ID:: 29203 new3/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-997623.jpg
St.Bavo mk65
Oil on canvas
transferred from panel
14x12"
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans Nativity, at Night Painting ID:: 32340 new4/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-469666.jpg
Nativity, at Night 1484-90
Oil on oak, 34 x 25 cm
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans St.john the Baptist in the Wilderness Painting ID:: 33438 new9/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-354455.jpg
St.john the Baptist in the Wilderness mk86
c.1485-1490
Oil on wood
42x28cm
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans The fate of the earthly remains of St Fohn the Baptist Painting ID:: 39641 new12/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-573483.jpg
The fate of the earthly remains of St Fohn the Baptist mk150
after 1484
Oak
172x139cm
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans The natitity at night Painting ID:: 42848 new16/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-768976.jpg
The natitity at night mk170
1480-1490
Oil on oak
34x25.3cm
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans Geertgen painted The Lamentation of Christ for the altarpiece of the monastery of the Knights of Saint John in Haarlem Painting ID:: 59014 new21/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-928463.jpg
Geertgen painted The Lamentation of Christ for the altarpiece of the monastery of the Knights of Saint John in Haarlem Geertgen painted The Lamentation of Christ for the altarpiece of the monastery of the Knights of Saint John in Haarlem
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans Geertgen painting John the Baptist in the Wilderness Painting ID:: 59015 new21/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-937455.jpg
Geertgen painting John the Baptist in the Wilderness Geertgen's painting John the Baptist in the Wilderness
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans Geertgen depicted the Child Jesus as a light source on his painting The Nativity at Night Painting ID:: 59016 new21/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-939687.jpg
Geertgen depicted the Child Jesus as a light source on his painting The Nativity at Night Geertgen depicted the Child Jesus as a light source on his painting The Nativity at Night
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans Virgin and Child Painting ID:: 62445 new21/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-249344.jpg
Virgin and Child 26,8 x 20,5 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam This small painting of the Madonna depicts a fragile female figure holding her newborn together with a vanquished dragon. The artist indicates her floating, vision-like quality with the use of fantastic lighting and an army of angels in concentric circles. By arranging the choir of angels in a manner reminiscent of spheres, it is also expressed that the infant Jesus in the centre of the picture is the ruler of the Universe. With a sweeping gesture and a look of concentration, the infant is shaking two bells, as if to be in concert with the angel doing the same thing on the left side of the picture. They are definitely looking at each other, and since they are the only two doing this, the action has special significance: it shows the "conductor" Jesus in the role of the universe's prime mover. Thus the painting clearly expresses a concept formulated by St Thomas Aquinas, according to which Jesus created the harmony of the spheres. In Geertgen's painting the three attributes of Mary (glory, sadness and joy) are represented by angels encircling the Madonna in three rings. The inner circle contains six-winged cherubs and seraphs. The angels of the second circle hold above the head of Mary the early Christian symbols of glorification, scrolls with the word "Sanctus" appearing on them three times. The rest bear the objects associated with the Passion: the cross, the crown of thorns, a spear, nails, a hammer, and a column. The outside circle presents a multitude of musical angels, symbolizing heavenly happiness. Here we can see nearly all of the instruments of the period: lutes, violas, double recorders, trumpets, drums, bells, horns, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, etc. The larger keyboard instruments are located in the corners; on the organ we can see the hand-operated bellows. Obviously, the painter did not intend to reproduce the image of a real orchestra, that is why he included instruments which were never used together
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans johannes doparens ben brannes Painting ID:: 70779 new23/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-773534.jpg
johannes doparens ben brannes olja pa tra 139x172cm
1659
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Geertgen Tot Sint Jans naissance du christ Painting ID:: 71098 new23/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-945858.jpg
naissance du christ mk289 1485 barcelone museu diocesa
Geertgen Tot Sint Jans The resurrection of Lazarus Painting ID:: 85910 new25/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-766489.jpg
The resurrection of Lazarus Date c. 1480 (1480-1485)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 172 x 97 cm (67.7 x 38.2 in)
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Geertgen Tot Sint Jans The Raising of Lazarus Painting ID:: 87263 new25/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-467764.jpg
The Raising of Lazarus 1480(1480)
Medium Oil and tempera on panel
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Geertgen Tot Sint Jans Nativity Painting ID:: 88441 new25/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-573569.jpg
Nativity between 1484(1484) and 1490(1490)
Medium Oil on oak
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Geertgen Tot Sint Jans The resurrection of Lazarus Painting ID:: 90056 new25/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-995977.jpg
The resurrection of Lazarus 1480 (1480-1485)
Medium Oil on panel
Dimensions 172 x 97 cm (67.7 x 38.2 in)
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Geertgen Tot Sint Jans The Holy Kinship Painting ID:: 93790 new26/Geertgen Tot Sint Jans-789857.jpg
The Holy Kinship between 1485(1485) and 1495(1495)
Medium oil on panel
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Netherlandish Northern Renaissance Painter, ca.1460-1490
Geertgen tot Sint Jans is also known as Geertgen van Haarlem, Gerrit van Haarlem, or Gerrit Gerritsz.[citation needed] Alternative spellings of his first name are Gheertgen, Geerrit, and Gheerrit, where G(h)eertgen is the diminutive form of G(h)eerrit.
Presumably, he was born in Leiden, then in the Burgundian Netherlands in the Holy Roman Empire, around the year 1465. The assignment of Leiden as his birth place is traceable to a 17th century print by Jacob van Matham. There is no known archival evidence for this claim by Jacob van Matham. The modern acceptance of Leiden as Geertgen's birth place is roughly traceable to Johann Kessler's dissertation of 1930.
Probably, Geertgen was a pupil of Albert van Ouwater, who was one of the first oil painters in the northern Low Countries. Both painters lived in the city of Haarlem. Geertgen was attached to the monastery of the Knights of Saint John, for whom he painted an altarpiece. Although Geertgen was not a member of the Order of Saint John, his last name "tot Sint Jans" was derived from the order's name and means "unto Saint John".
Geertgen died in Haarlem, then the Habsburg Netherlands in the Holy Roman Empire, around the year 1495, when he was approximately 28 years old. He was buried in the monastery of the Knights of Saint John. Modern scholars have attempted to calculate the artist's death date with the information from The Painting-Book (Middle Dutch: Het Schilder-Boeck) by Karel van Mander, published in 1604. There are some archival traces that suggest he may in fact have lived into the 16th century.