Discover print artist, painter, draftsperson Lucas van Leyden

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: Leiden, Lucas van
Leiden, Lukas van
Leijden, Lucas van
Leyden, Lucas Hugensz. van
Luca d'Olanda
Iacobsz., Lucas
Jacobsz., Lucas
Hollandere, Lucas de
Hugensz., Lucas

Qualifications: print artist, painter, draftsperson

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish

Born: Leiden (city) 1494-05/1494-06
May or early June 1494

Deceased: Leiden (city) 1533-05/1533-08
between late May and early August

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Huyg Jacobsz., (died 1534) and Beatrix Dirck Floresdr. , brother of Dirck Hugensz., married to Lijsbet van Bosschuysen (died 1534); father of Maritgen Lucasdr.

This person/entity in other databases

225 hits in RKDimages as artist
106 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
1203 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
101 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Leiden (stad) 1508 - 1533
ca.
Antwerpen (stad) 1522
free master in the Guild of St. Luke, Antwerp in 1522 (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961)

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Jacobsz., Huygh
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Bruyn, Nicolaes de
Monogrammist LPCH
Monogrammist PYL
Schiaminossi, Raffaello
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Aldegrever, Heinrich

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, portrait, Christian religious scene

Medium/technique: oil paint

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 106 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Van Mander 1604 , fol. 134-137 (as: Lucas van Leyden)
Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 15, 22, vol. 2 (1719), p. 153, 324, 337 (as: luc. v. Leyden, Lukas van Leiden)
Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol. 1, p. 99
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 31-40 (as: Lukas van Leyden, also called Lukas Huygensz)
Hervey 1921 , p. 483 (List of works of art by van Leyden in the Arundel Collection in 1655)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 23 (1929), p. 168-170
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 10 [1953], p. 57-244
Witt Checklist 1978 (als Lucas Hugensz. van Leyden)
The Illustrated Bartsch (1978-) , vol. 12 (1981), p. 129-334
Verheggen 2006 , passim
Lammertse/Giltaij/Damen 2008 , p. 241-242
Melzer 2010 , passim
Saur 1992- , vol. 81 (2015), p. 318 (as: Lucas Hugensz. van Leyden)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

F. Dülberg, 'Die Persönlichkeit des Lucas van Leyden', Oud-Holland 17 (1899), p. 65-83
F. Dülberg, 'Die Nachkommen des Lucas van Leyden', Oud-Holland 17 (1899), p. 156-162
F. Dülberg, 'Rembrandt und Lucas van Leyden', Leidsch jaarboekje 1906, p. 110-115
Th. von Frimmel, 'Ein neu aufgefundener Lukas van Leyden', Blätter für Gemäldekunde 4 (1907), no. 2, p. 34-40 (Schloss Wisowitz)
N. Beets, 'Ontleeningen. VI. Lucas van Leyden en Albrecht Dürer', Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond 5 (1912), p. 43ff.
Th. von Frimmel, 'Zu den Davidbildern des Lukas van Leyden. Ein neu aufgefundenes Gemälde', Studien und Skizzen zur Gemäldekunde 5 (1921), no. 9, p. 149-153
E. Duverger, 'Lucas van Leyden en de tapijtkunst', Artes Textiles 4 (1957-1958), p. 34-35
W. Wegner, 'Ein Bildnis von Hugo Jacobsz von seinem Sohne Lucas van Leyden', Oud-Holland 72 (1957), p. 191-194
K.G. Boon, 'De vroegste glaskartons uit de Sint-Janskerk te Gouda', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 21 (1973), p. 151-175
J.P. Filedt Kok, P. Eikemeier and J.R.J. van Asperen de Boer, 'Das Diptichon des Lucas van Leiden von 1522. Versuch einer Rekonstruktion', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 26 (1975), p. 229-258
Lucas van Leyden Studies, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 29 (1978)
J. Campbell Hutchinson, 'Two early engravings by Lucas van Leyden: Susannah and the Elders and The Conversion of Saint Paul', Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin 1981-1983, p. 21-28
R. Genaille, 'Le paysage dans la peinture des anciens Pays-Bas de Patinier à Bruegel', Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen 1987, p. 143-184
W.S. Gibson, 'Lucas van Leyden's late paintings: the Italian connection', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 37 (1986), p. 41-52
P. Parshall, review of The New Hollstein 1996, Simiolus 25 (1997), p. 236-238
B. Cornelis and J.P. Filedt Kok, 'The taste for Lucas van Leyden prints', Simiolus 26 (1998), p. 18-86
L. Silver, 'Middle Class Morality: Love and Marriage in the Art of Lucas van Leyden', in: L.S. Dixon (ed.), In Detail. New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Walter S. Gibson, Turnhout 1998, p. 97-111
L. Silver, 'Blijde Uitgave: early Dutch large woodcut ensembles and politics', in: A. Balis et al., Florissant. Bijdragen tot de kunstegschiedenis der Nederlanden (15de-17de eeuw). Liber Amicorum Carl van de Velde, Brussels 2005, p. 65-77
L. Silver, 'Marketing the Dutch past: the Lucas van Leyden revival around 1600', in: A. Golahny et al., In his milieu. Essays on Netherlandish art in memory of John Michael Montias, Amsterdam 2006, p. 411-422
J. Schaeps, 'De boekillustratie in Europees perspectief', Omslag 2011, no. 1, p. 6-7 (about a woodcut for the Missale Trajectense)
'Lucas van Leyden. Een uitbundige poppenkast', Kunstschrift 55 (2011), no. 2 (special volume related to the exhibition in Leiden)
P. Parshall, review of exh. cat. Leiden 2011, The Burlington Magazine 153 (2011), p. 626-627
M. Wolters et al., 'Developments in the underdrawing and painting technique of the sixteenth-century Leiden School, in particular the workshops of Cornelis Engebrechtsz and Lucas van Leyden', in: M. Spring (ed.), Studying Old Master Paintings. Technology and Practice. The National Gallery Technical Bulletin 30th Anniversary Conference Postprints, Londen 2011, p. 104-110
A. Vandivere, ''Cloeck en veerdigh'. Energetic and Skillful Painting Techniques of the Sixteenth-Century Leiden School', JHNA-Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 4 (2012), no. 1 (www.jhna.org)
N.M. Ornstein, review of exh. cat. Leiden 2011, Print Quarterly 24 (2012), p. 339-341
I.M. Veldman, 'The formative years of Lucas van Leyden (15-6-08): visual sources and the question of patronage', Simiolus 36 (2012), p. 5-34
J. Aono, 'Engraved Color: Lucas van Leyden "Dance of Maria Magdalene"', in: A. Kofuku (ed.), Study on Printing of Images, Tokyo 2013, p. 103-126
L. Packer, 'Drawn copies by Hendrick Hondius and others after prints by Lucas van Leyden', Master Drawings 53 (2015), p. 191-206
E.H. Wouk, 'Maarten Peeters, publisher at the Sign of the Golden Fountain', Delineavit et Sculpsit no. 38 (April 2015), p. 2-49

Jeremy Bangs, Inventory of Leiden Artisans 1400-1575 (unpublished)

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Archive location: archief Nicolaas Beets
archief W. Jos de Gruyter
Project: Leiden Artistic Production, 1475-1575

External links: this artist in Ecartico

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Creation date: 1994-01-19; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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