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Denys van Alsloot BiographyBelgium Mannerist painter, designer and draftsmanborn 1570 - died 1626 Also known as: Denijs van Alsloot, Denis van Alsloot, Denijs van Alslot. |
Denys van Alsloot, a tapestry maker's son, pioneered the Brussels landscape school. He joined the artists guild there in 1599, around the same time that he was named official painter to Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella, for whom he created landscape paintings, images of court festivities, and designs for at least one set of tapestries. The most famous and lucrative Denys van Alsloot paintings were recording the Ommegang, a splendid court procession through Brussels in 1615, during which Isabella was made Queen of the Crossbowmen's Guild. | |||||||
His surviving paintings are rare: some thirty paintings and a few drawings. In his landscapes, he drew inspiration from the forest of Soignes near Brussels. Landscape painting of the late 1500s and the wooded landscapes of Gillis van Coninxloo also influenced his work. His own style displayed a refined handling of foliage with a tendency to include views of castles and abbeys from the forest of Soigné. Denys van Alsloot paintings are usually topographically accurate, making it possible to identify places that survive today. The artist Hendrick de Clerck regularly added brightly colored figures, which often clash with the landscapes' brown-green tonality, to his paintings. |