Jan Sanders van Hemessen is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Jan Sanders van Hemessen as Flemish painter.
Jan Sanders van Hemessen was born at Hemiksem in 1500. His recorded nationality is Habsburg Netherlands.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is mannerism.
His best-known work is Allegory (Nature as the Nursemaid of Art). A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Habsburg Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Jan Sanders van Hemessen died in 1575, aged 75. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Allegory (Nature as the Nursemaid of Art)
- Movement: Mannerism
