Brunswick (Braunschweig) Monogrammist, active (in the mid-to-late 16th century)
• Was an anonymous Netherlandish painter. • He (or she) painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes, and has been called "the most significant precursor of Pieter Bruegel the Elder". • The monogram for which the Brunswick Monogrammist is named appears only once, on his (or her) Parable of the Great Supper in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick. • It is composed of the interlocked letters J, V, A, M, S and L, and neither it nor careful analysis of his work have yielded consensus about his identity. • Next
Brunswick (Braunschweig) Monogrammist, The Loose Society (Bordell scene), c. 1535-40
Original, Staatliche Museum in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Visited in 2019.
Brunswick (Braunschweig) Monogrammist, The Loose Society (Bordell scene), c. 1535-40