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BOUTS, Dieric the Elder
Flemish painter (b. ca. 1415, Haarlem, d. 1475, Leuven). Related Paintings of BOUTS, Dieric the Elder :. | Resurrection f | Portrait of a Man gfh | The Way to Paradise (detail) fgd | The Lamentation of Christ fg | The Capture of Christ gh | Related Artists: James Gunn1753 - 1801 BAROCCI, Federico FioriItalian Baroque Era/Mannerist Painter, ca.1535-1612 DOSSI, DossoItalian High Renaissance Painter, ca.1490-1542
Although responsive to a wide range of outside influences, the most important of which were probably those of Giorgione in Venice and Raphael in Rome, he was an artist of great originality with a strong feeling for effects of light and colour. Landscape plays a prominent and highly expressive role in his work. He was employed, as were also the poets Matteomaria Boiardo (?1441-94) and Ludovico Ariosto, at the court of Ferrara, which was internationally renowned for its culture, especially its musical life and collections of art: one of his best-known works is an illustration of a magical scene from Ariosto's poetry,
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