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Живопись для «удалившихся от мира»: особенности заказа монастырей в живописных мастерских Брюгге в XV – начале XVI в.
The article examines one of the key categories of commissions in the Bruges painting workshops in the XVth – early XVIth centuries: commissions from monastic orders. The abbeys were integrated into the urban life, supported religious Brotherhoods, managed the hospital of St. John, participated in ceremonial processions, and became discussion places for foreign merchants and diplomats.
During the XVth – early XVIth centuries, the convents commissioned almost all types of altarpieces (diptychs, single-board altarpieces, triptychs, polyptychs), and also commissioned several portraits. The popularity of the Bruges art school’s masters led to demand for the works of these artists beyond the Netherlandish lands, in Italian and Spanish convents. The monasteries' commissions, with all their variety of formats and their recourse to different Bruges painting workshops, demonstrate the continuity of the Bruges artistic tradition, which originates from the Jan van Eyck painting, whose motifs and iconography can be traced over a period of almost a century.