The Wing of an Altarpiece (a Triptych) Showing Three Male Donors Said to Be from the De Clercq Family from Bruges Verso: Saint Nicholas and Saint Catherine, en grisaille Oil on panel 132.6 by 74.2 cm. The stylistic features of the sitters in this portrait are close to those by the Bruges painter Antonie Claeissens (c. 1536/41– 1613). Claeissens was the official painter of the city of Bruges from 1570 until 1581, when his brother, Pieter II, succeeded him. The second half of the 16th century in Bruges was marked by an economic recession: the important textile market stagnated, the price of grain rose and many foreign merchants left the town for Antwerp. Still Bruges kept its international prestige, especially among the Spaniards, who kept exporting their wool through Bruges for a long time. Between 1578 and 1584 Bruges followed the example of Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels: a Protestant, Calvinist government reigned the town. But just as in these other Flemish towns this revolution did not last very long. In May 1584 the town surrendered to Alexander Farnese (1545–1592), the governor of the Habsburg Netherlands. Its population was struck by poverty and by the plague. Although Bruges had suffered very little from the Iconoclastic Fury (“Beeldenstorm”) of 1566 its churches and monasteries were being restored and important orders were given to the Claeissens family. Bruges’ reintegration into the Spanish Catholic Netherlands had to be affirmed. A damaged Last Supper, painted by Pieter Pourbus the Elder for the Church of Our Lady, was restored by Antoon Claeissens. As to new works of art: there was a return to the traditional, recognizable forms of art; this way triptychs and existing iconografical models became a weapon of the Catholic Counter–Reformation. It resulted in lots of religious commissions and paintings. The two saints portayed en grisaille on the verso of this painting are Saint Nicholas, the bishop of Myra in present–day Turkey, and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, one of the most important saints of the Catholic world during the Late Middle Ages. Since the Middle Ages girls stood under the protection of Saint Catherine, while boys enjoyed protection of Saint Nicholas.

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