Artist: Joachim Patinir(Patinir) - Title: Baptism of Christ - Medium: Fine Art Giclee on Canvas - Image Size: Approximately 32 inches x 25.5 inches - Unframed on Unstretched Canvas - Biography: Joachim Patinir, also referred to as just Patinier (c. 1480 - 5 October 1524), was a Flemish Renaissance painter of history and landscape subjects. He was Flemish, from the area of modern Wallonia, but worked in Antwerp, then the centre of the art market in the Low Countries. Patinir was a pioneer of landscape as an independent genre and he was the first Flemish painter to regard himself primarily as a landscape painter. He effectively invented the world landscape, a distinct style of panoramic northern Renaissance landscapes which is Patinir's important contribution to Western art. There are only five paintings signed by Patinir, but many other works have been attributed to him or his workshop with varying degrees of probability. The ones that are signed read: (Opus) Joachim D. Patinier, the "D" in his signature signifying Dionantensis ("of Dinant"), reflecting his place of origin.

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