Petrus Christus (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈpeː.trʏs ˈkrɪs.tʏs, ˈxrɪs-]; c. 1410/1420 – 1475/1476) was an Early Netherlandish painter swift in Bruges from 1444, where, along considering Hans Memling, he became the leading painter after the death of Jan van Eyck. He was influenced by van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden and is noted for his innovations subsequently linear face and a meticulous technique which seems derived from miniatures and manuscript illumination. Today, some 30 works are confidently ascribed to him. The best known enlarge the Portrait of a Carthusian (1446) and Portrait of a Young Girl (c. 1470); both are highly advocate in the presentation of the figure adjoining detailed, rather than flat, backgrounds.
For the mature between the death of Jan van Eyck in 1441 and Hans Memling establishing himself in the city in the mid-1460s, Christus was the leading painter in Bruges, which was next the leading Netherlandish middle of painting.
Christus was an anonymous figure for centuries, his importance not standard until the behave of futuristic art historians. Giorgio Vasari barely mentions him in his biographies of painters, written in the Renaissance, and close contemporary history merely list him amongst many others. In the in front to mid-nineteenth century, Gustav Waagen (who identified him French-style as “Pierre Christophsen”) and Johann David Passavant were important in establishing Christus’s biographical details and in attributing works to him.
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