Jan Provoost

(1465–1529) painter from the Southern Netherlands (1465–1529)

Jan Provoost (1465–1529) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Jan Provoost belongs to the chapter ‘The Renaissance’ in this site’s history of art.

Jan Provoost was born in Mons and died in Bruges.

The best-known works include ‘Triptych with the Virgin and Child (centre panel), St John the Evangelist (inner left wing) and Mary Magdalen (inner right wing)’, ‘Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Saints Jerome and John the Baptist and a Carthusian Monk’, ‘The Virgin and Child in a Landscape’, and ‘Portrait of Elisabeth of Hungary’. The catalogue has 53 works by Jan Provoost with free images. The dated works span the years 1480–1550. Works by Jan Provoost are held by several collections, among them Stourhead, Department of Paintings of the Louvre, Vlaamse Kunstcollectie, and Sacred Art Museum of Funchal. Wikidata links 2 works to movements covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Antonio Solario, Hans Fries, Hans Holbein den äldre, Vittore Carpaccio, and Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti.