Joachim Patinir
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Joachim Patinir, also called Patenier, was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects. He was born in Wallonia, but in his mature career worked in Antwerp, then the centre of the
Portrait of Joachim Patinir by Aegidius Sadeler after Dürer
Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, oil on panel, 17 × 21 cm, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp
The Baptism of Christ, oil on oak, 59.5 × 77 cm, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Geological inspiration: detail from Patinir's St Jerome (National Gallery), juxtaposed with photographs of the dramatic rock pinnacles of Dinant
World landscape
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The world landscape, a translation of the German Weltlandschaft, is a type of composition in Western painting showing an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint that includes mou
Joachim Patinir
…as an independent genre and he was the first Netherlandish painter to regard himself primarily as a landscape painter. He effectively invented the world landscape, a distinct style of panoramic northern Renaissance landscapes which is Patinir's important contribution to Western art. His work marks an important…
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Flight into Egypt, 1563, 37.1 × 55.6 cm (14.6 × 21.9 in)
Landscape with Charon Crossing the Styx, Joachim Patinir, c. 1515–1524, Prado
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Cornelis Massys, c. 1540