Documental: Patinir y la invención del paisaje

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• published: 11 Mar 2010
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Resumen del documental realizado con motivo de la exposición Patinir que tuvo lugar en el Museo del Prado del 3 julio al 7 de octubre de 2007. Joachim Patinir (hacia 1485-1524) es un pintor mítico dentro de la historia del arte, al que sus contemporáneos atribuyen el mérito de haber sido el primer pintor de paisajes. El Museo del Prado posee cuatro de los aproximadamente 30 cuadros que se atribuyen a Patinir y a su taller, más que ninguna otra colección. Patinir tuvo gran influencia entre los pintores de paisajes el siglo XVI (entre ellos Quinten Metsys, Joos van Cleve, Bernard van Orley, Simon Bening y Herri met de Bles). Mediante estos cuadros se pretende llamar la atención sobre las dos razones que justifican la importancia de Patinir dentro de la historia del arte: la originalidad y calidad individual de sus obras, y su papel dentro de la evolución de la pintura de paisaje. ________ Joachim Patinir’s date of birth is unknown, but he was probably born in modern-day south-east Belgium between 1480 and 1485. It is generally thought that from 1515 he worked as a painter in Antwerp and that he died there in 1524. The present exhibition intends to shed light on his biography and career and above all to draw the public’s attention to some of the most evocative and mysterious landscapes ever painted. Described by Dürer at the outset of the Renaissance as “the good painter of landscapes”, Patinir was considered the first modern painter to specialise in this genre. The exhibition opens with a selection of works by forerunners of the artist in which a growing interest in the natural setting is evident. Nonetheless, neither Bosch, Robert Campin, Hans Memling or Dirk Bouts, among other forerunners of the artist, went on to specialise in landscape despite their evident influence on this genre. The exhibition examines the work of some of these predecessors of Patinir in whose painting landscape ceased to act as a mere background to the figures and became a setting in which the actions depicted took place.