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The Martyrdom of St Catherine

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

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Jan Provost's Martyrdom of Saint Catherine - the pendant of St Catherine Disputing with the Emperor and the Fifty Philosophers in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam - is a colourful mixture of tradition and innovation. Provost was a painter, cartographer and architect, who met Albrecht Dürer in Antwerp in 1520.

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The Martyrdom of St Catherine

About the Artist

Jan Provost

1465 – 1529

Jan Provo(o)st, Netherlandish painter. He was born at Mons and worked in Valenciennes and briefly in Antwerp before settling in Bruges in 1494. His style was fairly close to Gerard David, then the leading painter in Bruges, but Provost, although clumsier, was more inventive. In 1521 Provost met and entertained Dürer, who is reputed to have drawn his portrait.

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