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Schongauer

[ shohn-gou-er; German shohn-gou-uhr ]

noun

  1. Mar·tin [mahr, -tn, mahr, -teen], c1430–91, German engraver and painter.


Schongauer

/ ˈʃoːnɡauər /

noun

  1. SchongauerMartin?14451491MGermanARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: engraver Martin (ˈmartiːn). ?1445–91, German painter and engraver
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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A small oil-and-tempera painting called “The Torment of Saint Anthony,” based on a print by Martin Schongauer, came at about the same time as his Ghirlandaio stint.

And it’s impressive: the teenage artist not only skillfully edits Schongauer’s midair tangle of demons-and-saint, but sets it against an invented seascape.

As early as 2007, as Barry was steeping herself in the 15th century German print-maker, Martin Schongauer, a Michelangelo painting — reportedly based on a print by Schongauer — made its way from a 2008 London Sotheby’s auction to the Met’s Michael Gallagher.

We could see artistic changes from the original Schongauer print that probably first inspired him.

We are not told under whom Herlen laboured in the Netherlands, but he probably took the same course as Schongauer and Hans Holbein the elder, who studied in the school of van der Weyden.

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