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Jean Changene

d. 1495

French painter (late 15th-century)

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Jean Changene was a French painter.

Jean Changenet or Jean II Changenet was a late 15th century French painter active in Dijon and Avignon.

Life He was probably the son of Jean I Changenet and brother of Pierre Changenet, both also painters active in Dijon. Modern studies tentatively identify him with the third Master of the Burgundian Prelates. between the generation of Nicolas Froment and that of Nicolas Dipre. He set up his studio there early in the 1480s on rue de la Miraillerie. In 1492 he was one of two masters of the painters' confraternity of Saint Luke in the city. In 1493, he welcomed his "Spanish companion" Juan de Nalda and trained him for three years. In 2016, Carmen Decu Teodorescu and Frédéric Elsig identified the panels of this triptych with three of the four panels of the high altarpiece at the Church of Notre-Dame of Dijon, the latter having the subject of a 1490 contract between Changenet and Nicolas Bouesseau, president of the Chambre des comptes de Dijon. If the reverses of these wings were complete at the time of the painter's death in 1495, the fronts were completed by Jean Grassi between 1499 and 1500 - Grassi was then renting Changenet's former house.

This attribution is still debated. According to Elsig and Teodorescu, such an attribution would allow all works previously attributed to Lieferinxe to be reattributed to Changenet. Conversely but on the same grounds, Elliot Adam and Sophie Caron confirm the three panels' attribution to Changenet, following theories already mooted by Charles Sterling in 1973 and Michel Laclotte in 1975.

Other Three Prophets, 1484 (?), musée du Louvre, Paris - a fragment from the high altarpiece of the Dominican church in Arles, which Pierre Véran states to have shown the Tree of Jesse and borne the signature of the painter Jean de Bourgogne and the date of 1 May 1484 Saint Peter, private collection, New York. Mater Dolorosa, or Madonna Addolorata, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome

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Important facts

Born
Dijon
Died
1495
Occupation
Nationality
Also known as
Jean Changenet, Le Bourguignon, Jean le Bourguignon

Frequently asked questions

Who was Jean Changene?

French painter (late 15th-century)

When was Jean Changene born?

Jean Changene was born in Dijon.

When did Jean Changene die?

Jean Changene died in 1495.

What was Jean Changene's occupation?

Jean Changene was a painter.

What nationality was Jean Changene?

Jean Changene was French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jean Changene

· Wikidata: Q4520053

· DBpedia: Jean Changenet

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