Primitive Flemish

Primitif Flemish is a term appeared at the 19th century to appoint the Flemish painters with the service of the religion and trade at the 15th century in the south of the Netherlands. Most famous of them were Jan Van Eyck, Hans Memling and Gerard David (Bruges), Rogier Van der Weyden (Roger of Pasture) and Robert Campin (Turned), Thierry Bouts (Leuwen), Juste of Ghent (Urbino) and Hugo Van der Goes (Ghent).

The towns of Antwerp, of Brussels, Bruges, Turned or Ghent at that time becomes hearths of intense artistic activity related to a flourishing economic prosperity.

Characteristics

Contemporaries of the Italian painters of the Quattrocento, sometimes regarded as painters of the late Gothic or contrary to the First Rebirth, they assimilated the lessons of geometrical prospect but remain faithful to the Gothic style in the forms hails and hurled characters, the scarcity of naked, and the architectures inspired by those of the north of Europe.

These painters jointly made faithful and meticulous person of middle-class interiors with funds of landscape of the Netherlands, as well as the representation of subjects and messages in religious matter. They voluntarily transpose crowned in the real daily newspaper from the time.

The School of Primitive Flemish makes a great innovation characterized like true turning of the Histoire of art. Indeed, the Oil-base paint makes it possible to obtain a purity and a luminosity much larger than softening, to return a full range of let us tons and to reproduce the effect of the transparency by spreading out in very thin layers a pigmented mixture called glacis. The majority of the supports of these paintings are wood panels, with some rare examples of fabrics painted with softening.

Painters of this school

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