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ORLEY ,. See also:

BERNARD See also:VAN (1491-142), Flemish painter, the son and See also:pupil of the painter Valentyn van Orley, was See also:born at 1 The same See also:night See also:Moltke received copies of the See also:prince's orders and also See also:news of the victory of Loigny-Poupry, but for some See also:reason that is still unknown he let events take their course. 2 With all his faults, See also:Bourbaki was hardly responsible for this failure. See also:Gambetta had for some days been giving orders to the 18th and loth See also:corps See also:direct, but precisely at the moment he handed back the See also:control of the See also:group to d'Aurelle, this being arranged over the wires while the III. corps was advancing. See also:Brussels and completed his See also:art See also:education in See also:Rome in the school of See also:Raphael. He returned to Brussels, where he held an See also:appointment as See also:court painter to See also:Margaret of See also:Austria until 1527, in which See also:year he lost this position and See also:left the See also:city. He only returned to it upon being reinstated by See also:Mary of See also:Hungary in 1532, and died there in 1542. Whilst in his earlier See also:work he continued the tradition of the Van Eycks and their followers, he inaugurated a new era in Flemish art by introducing into his native See also:country the See also:Italian manner of the later See also:Renaissance, the See also:style of which he had acquired during his sojourn in Rome. His art marks the passing from the See also:Gothic to the Renaissance See also:period; he is the See also:chief figure in the period of decline which preceded the See also:advent of See also:Rubens. Meticulously careful See also:execution, brilliant colouring, and an almost Umbrian sense of See also:design are the chief characteristics of his work. Van Orley, together with See also:Michael Cocxie, superintended the execution of van Aelst's tapestries for the Vatican, after Raphael's designs, and is himself responsible for some remark-able See also:tapestry designs; such as the panels at See also:Hampton Court. His also are the designs for some of the stained See also:glass windows in the See also:cathedral of Ste Gudule, in Brussels, at the museum of which city are a number of his See also:principal See also:works, notably the See also:triptych representing "The See also:Patience of See also:Job" (1521).

Among his finest paintings are a " Trinity " at See also:

Lubeck cathedral, a " Pieta " at Brussels, a Madonna at See also:Munich and another at See also:Liverpool. The See also:National See also:Gallery owns a " Magdalen, See also:reading," another version of the same subject being at the See also:Dublin National Gallery. See also:Lord See also:Northbrook possesses a portrait of See also:Charles V. by the See also:master.

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