lucas gassel (1500 - 1568)
Lucas Gassel was a Flemish Renaissance landscape painter.
Gassel was a humanist, socialized with other humanists in the Netherlands, and was a well-known and successful artist. Gassel's extant paintings depict distant landscapes, often with famous episodes from the Bible depicted in the foreground, such as the Escape to Egypt, or characters from classical mythology, such as Pyramus and Thebes. His drawings and engravings with scenes from court and everyday life are also well known.
Lucas Gassel was a Flemish Renaissance landscape painter.
Gassel was a humanist, socialized with other humanists in the Netherlands, and was a well-known and successful artist. Gassel's extant paintings depict distant landscapes, often with famous episodes from the Bible depicted in the foreground, such as the Escape to Egypt, or characters from classical mythology, such as Pyramus and Thebes. His drawings and engravings with scenes from court and everyday life are also well known.