St Irene Nurses St Sebastian

religious

There are seven surviving panels of a St Sebastian cycle in various collections. The painter of the cycle, first named as the Master of St Sebastian, was identified as Joss Lieferinxe, a painter from Hainaut active in Marseilles and Aix between 1493 and 1508. A document of 1497 records an altarpiece with eight pieces from the life of St Sebastian flanking a centrepiece depicting Sebastian between Sts Anthony and Roch.

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About the Artist

Josse Lieferinxe

Flemish painter, active in France. A native of Hainaut, in the diocese of Cambrai, he may have come from Lieferinge near Enghien. He is documented in Marseille and Aix-en-Provence from 1493 to 1505, often being described as a 'Picard painter'. In 1503 he married Michelle, one of the daughters of Jean Changenet, the most prominent painter of the time in Avignon, with whom he may have trained. The last great representative of the 'School of Avignon', Lieferinxe appears to have concentrated on the production of altarpieces.

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