Augusta Stylianou Gallery

Paintings

Helicon or Minerva's Visit to the Muses

Joos de Momper the Younger (1564–1635), also known as Josse de Momper, is one of the most important Flemish landscape painters between Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens. Brueghel's influence is clearly evident in this many of de Momper's paintings.

Life

Born in 1564 in Antwerp, Joos de Momper was first apprenticed to his father. In the 1580s, he travelled to Italy to study art. De Momper primarily painted landscapes, the genre for which he was well-regarded during his lifetime. He painted both fantasy landscapes, viewed from a high vantage point and employing a conventional Mannerist color transition of brown in the foreground to green and finally blue in the background, and more realistic landscapes with a lower viewpoint and more natural colors. His wide panoramas also feature groups of figures. Only a small number of the 500 paintings attributed to De Momper are signed, and just one is dated.

Notable works

* Extensive Mountainous Landscape
* Helicon or Minerva's Visit to the Muses - Koninklijk Museum
* Flemish Market and Washing Place - Museo del Prado, Madrid
* Landscape with the Temptation of Christ - National Gallery, Prague
* Mountain Scene with Bridges - Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
* Paysage de neige - Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Châlons-en-Champagne

References

* Irene Haberland, "Momper, de" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, [accessed 8 July, 2007].
* Paintings by Joos de Momper

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