Lucas van Leyden worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Lucas van Leyden as Dutch artist, painter (1494-1533).
Lucas van Leyden was born at Leiden in 1494. His recorded nationality is Northern Low Countries.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter, printmaker and copper engraver.
Among his best-known works are Inner left wing of a diptych with Christ as the Man of Sorrows, Last Judgement and Crucifixion of Christ. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Northern Low Countries shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Lucas van Leyden died in 1533, aged 39. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Inner left wing of a diptych with Christ as the Man of Sorrows
- Notable work: Last Judgement
- Notable work: Crucifixion of Christ
- Notable work: A Game of Chess
