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Hugo van der Goes (Ghent
Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe....
, ?c. 1440 – Oudergem, near Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
, 1482 or 1483) was a Flemish painter. He was, along with Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck

Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painting active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....
, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling
Hans Memling

Hans Memling was an Early Netherlandish painting, born in Seligenstadt/Germany, who was the last major fifteenth century artist in the Low Countries, the successor to Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tradition he continued with little innovation....
 and Gerard David
Gerard David

Gerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color....
, one of the most important of the Early Netherlandish painters
Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting is the work of those painting who were active in the Netherlands during the 15th and early 16th century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing cities of Bruges and Ghent....
.

Hugo became a member of the painters' guild of Ghent
Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe....
 as a master in 1467.






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Portinari Altarpiece
Hugo van der Goes (Ghent
Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe....
, ?c. 1440 – Oudergem, near Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
, 1482 or 1483) was a Flemish painter. He was, along with Jan van Eyck
Jan van Eyck

Jan van Eyck or Johannes de Eyck was an Early Netherlandish painting active in Bruges and considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century....
, Rogier van der Weyden, Hans Memling
Hans Memling

Hans Memling was an Early Netherlandish painting, born in Seligenstadt/Germany, who was the last major fifteenth century artist in the Low Countries, the successor to Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tradition he continued with little innovation....
 and Gerard David
Gerard David

Gerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color....
, one of the most important of the Early Netherlandish painters
Early Netherlandish painting

Early Netherlandish painting is the work of those painting who were active in the Netherlands during the 15th and early 16th century Northern renaissance, especially in the flourishing cities of Bruges and Ghent....
.

Hugo became a member of the painters' guild of Ghent
Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe....
 as a master in 1467. In 1468 he was involved in the decoration of the town of Bruges
Bruges

Bruges is the capital and largest city of the Provinces of Belgium of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located in the northwest of the country....
 in celebration of the marriage between Charles the Bold and Margaret of York
Margaret of York

Margaret of York – also by marriage known as Margaret of Burgundy – was a daughter of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York and Cecily Neville....
 and he provided heraldic decorations for Charles's joyeuse entrée
Royal Entry

The Royal Entry, also known by various other names, including Triumphal Entry and Joyous Entry, embraced the ceremonial and festivities accompanying a formal entry by a ruler or his representative into a city in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period in Europe....
 to Ghent in 1469 and again in 1472. He was elected dean of the Ghent guild in 1473 or 1474.

In 1475, or some years later, Hugo entered Rooklooster, a monastery near Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
 belonging to the Windesheim Congregation, and professed there as a frater conversus. He continued to paint, and remained at Rooklooster until his death in 1482 or 1483. In 1480 he was called to the town of Leuven
Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flanders, Belgium. It is located about 30 kilometers east of Brussels, with as other neighbouring cities Mechelen, Aarschot, Tienen, and Wavre....
 to evaluate the Justice Scenes left unfinished by the painter Dieric Bouts on his death in 1475. Shortly after this, Hugo, returning with other members of his monastery from a trip to Cologne, fell into a state of suicidal gloom, declaring himself to be damned. After returning to Rooklooster, Hugo recovered from his illness, and died there. His time at Rooklooster is recorded in the chronicle of his fellow monk, Gaspar Ofhuys. A report by a German physician, Hieronymus Münzer
Hieronymus Münzer

Hieronymus M?nzer or Monetarius was a Renaissance humanist, physician and geographer who made a famous grand tour of the Iberian peninsula in 1494–5....
, from 1495, according to which a painter from Ghent was driven to melancholy by the attempt to equal the Ghent Altarpiece
Ghent Altarpiece

The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb is a very large and complex Early Netherlandish painting polyptych panel painting which was once in the Joost Vijdt chapel at Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, but was later moved for security reasons to the chapel of the cathedral....
, may refer to Hugo.

His most famous surviving work is the Portinari Triptych
Portinari Triptych

The Portinari Triptych is an oil on wood triptych painting by the Flanders painter Hugo van der Goes representing the Adoration of the shepherds....
 (Uffizi
Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
, Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
), an altarpiece
Altarpiece

An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting....
 commissioned for the church of San Egidio in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
 by Tommaso Portinari
Tommaso Portinari

Tommaso Portinari was an Italian banker for the Medici Bank in Bruges. He was a member of a prominent Florence family that had included Dante Alighieri's muse, Beatrice Portinari....
, the manager of the Bruges branch of the Medici Bank
Medici bank

The Medici Bank was the largest and most respected bank in Europe during the 15th century. There are some estimates that the Medici family was for a period of time the wealthiest family in Europe....
. The triptych arrived in Florence in 1483, apparently some years after its completion by van der Goes. The largest Netherlandish work that could be seen in Florence, it was greatly praised. Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italy Painting and architect, who is today famous for his biography of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art history writing....
 in his Vite of 1550 referred to it as by "Ugo d'Anversa" ("Hugo of Antwerp"). This the sole documentation for its authorship by Hugo; other works are attributed to him based on stylistic comparison with the altarpiece.

Hugo appears to have left a large number of drawings, and either from these or the paintings themselves followers made large numbers of copies of compositions that have not survived from his own hand. A drawing of Jacob and Rachel preserved at Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church , is one of the largest Colleges of the University of Oxford of the University of Oxford in England. As well as being a college, Christ Church is also the cathedral church of the diocese of Oxford, namely Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford....
 is thought to be a rare surviving autograph drawing.

Major works

  • Fall of Man and Lamentation diptych. Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
  • Deposition diptych (on canvas). Private collector (left wing); Berlin, Gemäldegalerie (right wing)
  • Adoration of the Kings ("Monforte Altarpiece"). Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
  • Portinari Triptych. Florence, Uffizi
  • Trinity Panels. Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland
  • Adoration of the Shepherds. Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
  • Death of the Virgin. Bruges, Groeningemuseum


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