Church Sermon

religious

The meaning of this painting, showing a priest in his pulpit addressing a crowd in and around a Renaissance church, is not clear. Perhaps it depicts the scene of The Calling of St Anthony. Until the 1930s the panel was attributed to Lucas van Leyden.

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About the Artist

Aertgen van Leyden

1498 – 1564

Aertgen van Leyden (also Aertgen Claesz.), Netherlandish painter, draughtsman, and designer of stained glass. Some sources incorrectly name him as a brother of the more famous Lucas van Leyden. Little is known about him, and few works can be securely associated with him. In 1516 he was a pupil of Cornelis Engebrechtsz and he worked in Leiden until his death in 1564. The biographer Karel van Mander describes Aertgen's style as extremely varied, with marked stylistic changes.

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