Lucas van Leyden (ca.1494-1533) was greatly admired as a painter in his own lifetime and his fame has not diminished, mainly because of his engravings and woodcuts.
Karel van Mander describes Lucas as a tireless artist in his Schilder-boeck (Book of painters, 1604). He met Dürer, his great role model, in Antwerp in 1521. In 1526-1527 he made one of the most impressive triptychs, The Last Judgement, ever painted in the Netherlands.
The exhibition shows more than 250 works: engravings, drawings and paintings from Lucas but also from artists as Albrecht Dürer and Joachim Patinir.
You can read all about this intriguing painter in the next issue of our Yearbook The Low Countries (April, 2011).
The exhibition presents also a lavishly illustrated catalogue: Lucas van Leyden en de Renaissance (published by Ludion).
Till 26 June 2011 at the Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden.
(Illustration: Lucas Van Leyden, The Last Judgment, 1527.)
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