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Geertgen tot Sint Jans: The Glorification of the Virgin

Artist



Alternative names	Geertgen tot St. Jans, Geertgen van Haarlem, Gerard van Haarlem, Gerrit van Haarlem, Gérard de Saint-Jean
Description	Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death	circa 1460 date QS:P,+1460-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902	circa 1488 date QS:P,+1488-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Location of birth/death	Leiden (?)	Haarlem (?)
Work location	Low Countries; Haarlem (1484–1495)
Authority file	: Q360888 VIAF: 102412797 ISNI: 0000000080090341 ULAN: 500115478 LCCN: nr91018036 MusicBrainz: 0855509f-fc6c-4c70-90af-258baf123a67 WorldCat

Title

Dutch:

De verheerlijking van Maria

The Glorification of the Virgin

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

Inner right wing of a diptych. See for the inner left wing File:Geertgen Kruisiging Edinburg.jpg.

Depicted people

Date

Circa 1490

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 24.5 cm (9.6 in); width: 20.5 cm (8 in)

Collection

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

	Native name	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
	Location	Museumpark 18, Rotterdam, Netherlands
	Coordinates	51° 54′ 51.06″ N, 4° 28′ 23.09″ E
	Established	1841
	Website	boijmans.nl
	Authority file	: Q679527 VIAF: 158031734 ISNI: 0000000404600425 ULAN: 500308264 LCCN: n81056593 NLA: 35464893 WorldCat

Current location

Room 05

Accession number

2450 (OK)

Place of creation

Northern Netherlands

Object history

by 1949: Victor D. Spark (art dealer), New York City by 1955: Daniël George van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam/Vierhouten 1958: bequeathed to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, by Daniël George van Beuningen, Rotterdam/Vierhouten

Exhibition history

Bourgondische pracht. Van Philips de Stoute tot Philips de Schone, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 28 July 1951–1 October 1951, cat. no. 43, no image.

Kunstschatten uit Nederlandse verzamelingen, Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 19 June 1955–25 September 1955, cat. no. 10.

Middeleeuwse kunst der Noordelijke Nederlanden, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 28 June 1958–28 September 1958, Cat.no. 14.

Van Eyck to Bruegel, 1400-1550. Dutch and Flemish painting in the collection of the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1994, ISBN 9789069181370, Cat.no. 13, p. 74-79.

Gebed in schoonheid. Schatten van privé-devotie in Europa 1300-1500, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 26 November 1994–26 February 1995, ISBN 9066304987, p. 151-156.

Vroege Hollanders. Schilderkunst van de late Middeleeuwen, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 16 February 2008–25 May 2008, ISBN 90-6918-225-4, p. 121-125, cat. no. 14, as Circle of Geertgen tot Sint Jans.

The collection enriched, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 16 April 2011–30 April 2013, no catalogue.

Credit line

Acquired with the collection of D.G. van Beuningen 1958

References

AnonymousUnknown author, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen collection online, as Geertgen tot Sint Jans, The Glorification of the Virgin, 1490-1495, 24.5 × 20.5 cm (9.6 × 8 in).

Anonymous, RKDimages, Art-work number 29315, as Circle of Geertgen tot Sint Jans, De verheerlijking van Maria, circa 1480 (?) (1470-1490), height: 26.8 cm (10.5 in); width: 20.5 cm (8 in) Anonymous, Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20042114, as Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Verherrlichung Mariae, circa 1490, height: 22.5 cm (8.8 in); width: 18 cm (7 in)
Anonymous, Web Gallery of Art, as Geertgen tot Sint Jans, Virgin and Child, 1480s, height: 27 cm (10.6 in); width: 21 cm (8.2 in).
Friedländer, Max J. (1969) Early Netherlandisch Painting. Volume V. Geertgen tot Sint Jans and Jerome Bosch, Leyden: A.W. Slijthof, Brussels: La Connaissance, p. , cat. Add. 139.

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GEERTGEN tot Sint Jans

(b. 1460/65, Leiden, d. 1490, Haarlem)

Virgin and Child 1480s Tempera on panel, 26,8 x 20,5 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

This small painting of the Madonna depicts a fragile female figure holding her newborn together with a vanquished dragon. The artist indicates her floating, vision-like quality with the use of fantastic lighting and an army of angels in concentric circles. By arranging the choir of angels in a manner reminiscent of spheres, it is also expressed that the infant Jesus in the centre of the picture is the ruler of the Universe. With a sweeping gesture and a look of concentration, the infant is shaking two bells, as if to be in concert with the angel doing the same thing on the left side of the picture. They are definitely looking at each other, and since they are the only two doing this, the action has special significance: it shows the "conductor" Jesus in the role of the universe's prime mover. Thus the painting clearly expresses a concept formulated by St Thomas Aquinas, according to which Jesus created the harmony of the spheres.

In Geertgen's painting the three attributes of Mary (glory, sadness and joy) are represented by angels encircling the Madonna in three rings. The inner circle contains six-winged cherubs and seraphs. The angels of the second circle hold above the head of Mary the early Christian symbols of glorification, scrolls with the word "Sanctus" appearing on them three times. The rest bear the objects associated with the Passion: the cross, the crown of thorns, a spear, nails, a hammer, and a column. The outside circle presents a multitude of musical angels, symbolizing heavenly happiness. Here we can see nearly all of the instruments of the period: lutes, violas, double recorders, trumpets, drums, bells, horns, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, etc. The larger keyboard instruments are located in the corners; on the organ we can see the hand-operated bellows. Obviously, the painter did not intend to reproduce the image of a real orchestra, that is why he included instruments which were never used together.

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Author: GEERTGEN tot Sint Jans Title: Virgin and Child Time-line: 1451-1500 School: Netherlandish Form: painting

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