{{Short description|Anonymous Netherlandish painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} [[File:Braunschweiger Monogrammist 001.jpg|thumb|''The Sacrifice of Isaac'' (2nd quarter of 16th century). Oil on wood, 40 × 32 cm. Louvre Museum, Paris]] [[File:Braunschweig Monogrammist (?)- Ecce Homo.jpg|thumb|Ecce Homo]]
'''The Brunswick Monogrammist''' or '''Master of the Brunswick Monogram''' was an anonymous Netherlandish Renaissance painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century. He (or she) painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes, and has been called "the most significant precursor of Pieter Bruegel the Elder".<ref>[http://www.staedelmuseum.de/sm/index.php?StoryID=112&ObjectID=170 Braunschweiger Monogrammist, Bordellszene] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611055131/http://www.staedelmuseum.de/sm/index.php?StoryID=112&ObjectID=170 |date=11 June 2011 }}, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Retrieved 4 September 2009</ref>
==Identity==
The monogram for which the Brunswick Monogrammist is named appears only once, on his (or her) ''Parable of the Great Supper'' in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick. It is composed of the interlocked letters J, V, A, M, S and L,<ref name="groveart.com">Elise L. Smith. "Brunswick Monogrammist" Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press, 12/4/07, http://www.groveart.com/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821130425/http://www.groveart.com./ |date=21 August 2008 }}</ref> and neither it nor careful analysis of his work have yielded consensus about his identity. His (or her, as Verhulst was female) paintings have been attributed to a number of painters, including Jan van Hemessen, Mayken Verhulst<ref name="groveart.com" /> and Jan van Amstel.<ref>''Collection: Dr. Herbert & Monika Schaefer: Selected Works''. New Haven: Mountain View Press. 1998. 32.</ref><ref>Bloch, Vitale. "A Luteplayer by Jan van Hemessen" ''The Burlington Magazine'', Vol. 98, No. 645. (Dec., 1956), pp. 445–447.</ref> [[File:1537 Braunschweiger Monogrammist Bordellszene anagoria.JPG|thumb|Brothel scene, 1537; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin]] [[File:Brunswick Monogrammist - Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel.jpg|thumb|right|''Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel'' (1550s). Oil on wood, 45.5 cm × 60.7 cm. National Gallery, London]]
==Partial list of works== *''A Brothel Scene'' (New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery)<ref>''Collection: Dr. Herbert & Monika Schaefer: Selected Works''. New Haven: Mountain View Press. 1998.</ref> *''A Dispute in a Brothel'' (Sold in May 2007 at Christie's Amsterdam) [http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=F970DB4FF3D22D2D021870D5FDA40CA7] *''St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness'' (Sold December 2005 at Christie's London) [http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=6570F1FF8B0091D978EBFCF6C9620872] *''Ecce Homo'' (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110608211803/http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/zoeken/asset.jsp?id=SK-A-1603&lang=en] *''The Feeding of the Poor'' or ''Feeding of the Five Thousand'' or ''Parable of the Great Supper'' (Herzog Anton Ulrich-Mus.) [http://www.artnet.com/library/05/0558/T055822.asp]<ref name="groveart.com" /> *''Itinerant Entertainers in a Brothel'' (London, National Gallery) [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122144/http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=NG5577] *''Tavern Scene'' (Berlin, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz) [https://books.google.com/books?id=FTj7BeKb5qoC&pg=PA94] *''Road to Calvary'' *''Brothel scene'', 1537, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
==See also== *Early Renaissance painting *Renaissance in the Netherlands
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brunswick Monogrammist}} Category:Flemish Renaissance painters Category:Anonymous artists Category:16th-century births Category:Year of death unknown Category:Year of birth unknown