Nicolas Froment

Paintings

Triptych from the burning bush, middle panel

Nicolas Froment (either Uzès, is in northern France was a French painter, representative of the second school of Avignon. He was painter in title of King Rene.

biography

His career before Avignon is little known, but it seems certain that the painter has formed in the year 1460 in Flanders and Italy. His training completed, Froment Uzès1 then joined the papal city of Avignon, in 1465, where he will then become part of what we call the second school of Avignon school that mixes clear obscure Italian and Flemish expressive severity.
works

He painted many contemporary characters in his paintings as René I of Naples and Jeanne de Laval found in the side panels of the triptych The Burning Bush and the Matheron Diptych.

The Resurrection of Lazarus Triptych (1461), Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
the Matheron Diptych (v.1475), oil on wood, 17 x 26 cm Paris, Musée du Louvre.
The Burning Bush triptych (1475-1476), tempera on wood, 410 x 305 cm, Aix-en-Provence, Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur.
Legend of Saint Mitre, 1470 approx., Oil on wood, Aix-en-Provence, Cathédrale Saint-Sauveur.

It would have also worked in 1460 on tapestry cartoons for the account of William of Hellande, Bishop of Beauvais2.
bibliography

The Triptych of the Burning Bush, eds. Yves and Marie-Claude Cranga Léonelli, pref. Christian Lacroix, Paris / Arles, coed. DRAC / Actes Sud, 2011, p. 160 (ISBN 978-2-7427-9746-2)

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Froment's works in the Uffizi in Florence

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