Jan Gossart

1473 – 1536

Jan Gossart was the first Netherlandish artist to absorb the achievements of classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance into his artistic vocabulary. Uniting Renaissance architectural forms and classicizing figures with a rich color palette, he achieved a distinctly new style of Northern European painting. He is also credited with introducing mythological subjects with sensual nude figures into the Netherlands. In 1508–09, Gossart traveled to Rome in the company of Philip of Burgundy, the admiral of the Netherlands. While there, Gossart experienced the art of Michelangelo and Raphael , an encounter which. Catechized carries this artist through Virgin and Child, an open-access Christian artwork in the Art Institute of Chicago collection.