Hugo van der goes biography of nancy
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Hugo van der goes biography of nancy
Hugo van der Goes
Flemish painter (c. 1430/1440–1482)
Hugo van der Goes (c. 1430/1440 – 1482) was one of the most significant and original Early Netherlandish painters of the late 15th century.
Van der Goes was an important painter of altarpieces as well as portraits. He introduced important innovations in painting through his monumental style, use of a specific colour range and individualistic manner of portraiture.
From 1483 onwards, the presence of his masterpiece, the Portinari Triptych, in Florence played a role in the development of realism and the use of colour in Italian Renaissance art.[1]
Life
Hugo van der Goes was likely born in Ghent or in the vicinity of Ghent around the year 1440.[1] Nothing is known with certainty about the artist's life prior to 1467, the year in which he became a master in the painters' guild of Ghent.
The sponsors for his membership of the guild were Joos van Wassenhove, master painter in Ghent from 1464, and Dan