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Brunswick Monogrammist Brothel scene with Fighting Prostitutes 1537
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Brunswick Monogrammist Brothel scene with Fighting Prostitutes 1537
Brunswick Monogrammist - Brothel scenes - 16th century
The Brunswick Monogrammist was an anonymous Netherlandish painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century. He (or she) painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes, and has been called "the most significant precursor of Pieter Bruegel the Elder".
ab. 1540-1550 Brunswick Monogrammist - Brothel scene
(Städel Museum)
Brunswick Monogrammist Brothel scene 1540
upper painting: Brunswick Monogrammist - Parable of the Great Banquet - 1525
National Museum in Warsaw (MNW)
Lower painting: Monogrammiste de Brunswick - Parable of the Great Banquet - Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Brunswick
The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King's Son is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew Matthew 22:1-14 and Luke Luke 14:15-24. It is not to be confused with a different Parable of the Wedding Feast recorded in Luke's Gospel.
The monogram for which the Brunswick Monogrammist is named appears only once, on his (or her) Parable of the Great Supper in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick. It is composed of the interlocked letters J, V, A, M, S and L, and neither it nor careful analysis of his work have yielded consensus about his identity. His (or her, as Verhulst was female) paintings have been attributed to a number of painters, including Jan van Hemessen, Mayken Verhulst and Jan van Amstel.
Brunswick Monogrammist - A Brothel Scene (1537
Party in a Brothel, c. 1540, by Brunswick Monogrammist
Company in a brothel. On the left a table with men and women drinking and embracing each other. At the fireplace on the right a woman bakes waffles and a man warms himself up. In the background, a man and a woman go up a staircase to an upper floor. On the left is a woman in a bed. On the fireplace above the fireplace is a wooden sign with an owl.
In Dutch paintings of the Golden Age, the owl symbolizes witchcraft, licentiousness, stupidity, and drunkenness.
Brothel Scene, c. 1525–1545, attributed to Jan van Amstel