Simon Marmion

(noun)

Born c. 1425 at Amiens, France, died 24 or 25 December 1489, Valenciennes. A French or Burgundian Early Netherlandish painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts. Marmion lived and worked in what is now France but for most of his lifetime was part of the Duchy of Burgundy in the Southern Netherlands.

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Examples of Simon Marmion in the following topics:

  • Illuminated Manuscripts

    • Simon Marmion was perhaps the best known and most successful artist specializing in this area, although van Eyck is thought to have contributed to the Turin-Milan Hours as the anonymous artist known as Hand G.

  • French Painting in the Baroque Period

    • Important painters of 17th century France include Simon Vouet, Charles Le Brun, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, and Georges de la Tour. 17th century painting in France was divided: on one hand there was influence from the Italian Baroque style as seen in the work of de la Tour; on the other was a distinctive turn towards a rigid, Classical style that was favored by the monarchy, and exemplified by the works of Le Brun, Poussin, and Lorrain.
    • Simon Vouet is known for introducing Baroque style painting to France.

  • Sienna: Painting

    • Some of the important painters from this period included Duccio and his pupils Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Simone Martini and Matteo di Giovanni.
    • Other painters of the Sienese school include Simone Martini and Pierto Lorenzetti , younger painters who pushed Duccio's innovations to new levels.

  • The Empire Style

    • While Bergeret designed the column, its execution was carried out by Jean-Joseph Foucou, Louis-Simon Boizot, François Joseph Bosio, Lorenzo Bartolini, Claude Ramey, François Rude, Corbet, Clodion and Henri-Joseph Ruxthiel.

  • Manuscript Printing

    • The Virgin of Mercy, also known as the Cadard Altarpiece after the donor, uses a motif that is most often found in Italian art, and was developed by Simone Martini a century earlier .

  • Landscape Art and Interior Painting

    • The leading artists of this style were Jan van Goyen (1596–1656), Salomon van Ruysdael (1602–1670), Pieter de Molyn (1595–1661), and, in marine painting, Simon de Vlieger (1601–1653), with a host of minor figures.

  • Italian Painting: 1200–1400

    • Some of the important painters from this period included Duccio and his pupils Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Simone Martini, and Matteo di Giovanni.

  • Italian Gothic Painting

    • In its fully developed form, it is best seen in the work of Simone Martini of Siena (1284–1344) and Gentile da Fabriano (1370–1427), whose paintings are characterized by a formalized sweetness and grace, an elegance and richness of detail, and an idealized quality that was missing in Giotto's stark work.