Gerard David

1450 – 1523

One of the leading painters in the Flemish city of Bruges, Gerard David had a fine sense of color and interest in landscape that placed him among the most innovative of his time. David likely received his early training in Haarlem and moved to Bruges in 1483. His more than 60 extant paintings reveal deep knowledge of the compositions, anatomical approaches, and techniques of a previous generation of influential painters like Jan van Eyck , Hugo van der Goes, and Hans Memling , all of whom worked in the southern Netherlands. In addition to his paintings and unlike many of his contemporaries, David may have been. Catechized carries this artist through Lamentation over the Body of Christ, an open-access Christian artwork in the Art Institute of Chicago collection.