Menininkas: Jheronimus Van Aken
Data: 1600
Dydis: 58 x 76 cm
technika: Oil On Panel
This Nativity in the style of Jheronimus Bosch is based on one with half-length figures of which there are several known versions, among others in Brussels (fig. a) and Cologne.16 In contrast to those vertical works, the Amsterdam panel acquired a group of angels making music in the centre above the crib, giving the painting a horizontal format. The angels are also found in 15th-century versions of The Nativity by Hugo van der Goes17 and the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines.18 The curtain behind the Virgin has a uniform colour in the Brussels and Amsterdam versions, whereas the one in Cologne has a brocade pattern. There is a difference of opinion as to whether the versions of The Nativity in Brussels, Cologne and elsewhere are based on a lost original by Jheronimus Bosch or are pastiches or imitations done in his style. In the past, the first theory was espoused by De Tolnay, Baldass and others, who believed that the original was painted around 1485.19 According to Verougstraete and Van Schoute, the Cologne and Brussels versions, and repetitions made after them, were pastiches in which motifs from the centre panel and the left wing of the triptych with Bosch’s Adoration of the Magi in Madrid were reused.20 Some details were copied faithfully, while others were more freely adapted.21 The Amsterdam Nativity fits within the tradition of showing the Virgin and Joseph with one or more shepherds as half-length figures gathered around a stone crib. Ringbom has pointed out that the composition is not Bosch’s invention but was derived from Hugo van der Goes,22 and from The Adoration of the Shepherds by the Master of the Virgo inter Virgines in Vienna.23 Late medieval devotional writings like the Meditationes vitae Christi relate how the Christ Child was warmed against the winter cold by the breath of the ox and the ass. As a parallel, the wintry conditions are evoked by the motif of the two figures warming themselves at a fire in the left background in the versions discussed here.24 J. Bogers, 2010 Literature updated by J.P. Filedt Kok, 2016
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