Lieferinxe
Josse Lieferinxe
died before 1508
(Master of St. Sebastian) Josse Lieferinxe was born at Enghien in the Hainaut (Southwestern Belgium) probably in the last third of the fifteenth century; he died in Marseilles sometime between 1505 and 1508. He was recorded in Marseilles from 1493 when he worked for Philippon Mauroux. It has been suggested that his apprenticeship was to an artist familiar with the art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans. He married the daughter of Jean Changenet (known as 'le Bourguignon'), the outstanding painter of Avignon, in 1503. Lieferinxe was long known as the Master of St. Sebastian after the Retable de Saint Sebastien, painted between 1497 and 1499, now dispersed. The central panel is in Antwerp (Musée des Beaux-Arts), with side panels in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (John G. Johnson Collection), Baltimore (Walters Art Gallery), Rome (Galleria Nazionale), and Leningrad (Hermitage). The contract for this altarpiece was dated 14 June 1497, ordered by the Confrérie du Luminaire de Saint Sebastian attached to the Church of the Accoules (Marseilles) to be executed together with a Piedmontese master, Bernardino Simondi (died in Aix, March 1498). Lieferinxe's second major project was the Retable du Calvaire probably painted in 1500-3, depicting a Crucifixion at the center (Paris, Louvre) and four scenes from the Life of the Virgin in the wings. Sterling suggested that Lieferinxe's familiarity with the art of Antonello da Messina resulted from his study of copies in France after the Italian artist's works. Lieferinxe combined North Netherlandish, Netherlandish, Burgundian, and Provencal currents of the late fifteenth century with Italian Renaissance elements which he may have received from his Piedmontese parmer.
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