Artist: Denys Van Alsloot (1570 - 1628)
Nationality: Flemish
Movement: Flemish School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Son of a tapestry maker, Denys van Alsloot was a forerunner in the Brussels landscape school and in 1599, joined the painter’s guild there. He was also appointed official painter to Archduke Albert and his wife Isabella, producing images of landscapes and court events and designing tapestries under their patronage. Alsloots’s landscapes mainly portrayed the forests around Brussels and often included castles and abbeys. He was noted for his mastery of painting foliage and producing topographically accurate images.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (2)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Forest Landscape with a Distant Castle
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Denys Pierre Puech - Standing Figure of Leon Bonnat 1903 bronze Cleveland Museum of Art French

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Denys van Alsloot (Getty Museum)
Denys van Alsloot Online
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Visual Arts Resources:Denys van Alsloot
Denys van Alsloot / Forest Landscape with a Distant Castle / 1608
Forest Landscape with a Distant Castle (Getty Museum)
Ministère de la culture - base Joconde
Paysage
ARTH 271 Lecture 25
Artist Biographies - Art History Movements - wwar.com

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