Claus Sluter
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Middle Ages
- Categories: Arts
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Sculpture, Sculptors
- Curriculum: Renaissance History, Medieval History/Middle Ages, Western Civilization/European History
Article abstract: Sluter’s innovations in creating individually distinct and expressively sculptured figures brought to Western art a new realism. Credited with bridging the late Gothic and the early Renaissance in northern Europe, Sluter and his name are synonymous with the Burgundian school of sculpture.
Early Life
Many details of Claus Sluter’s life have been lost, as have many of the sculptures he created. What is known of his early life is that he was born in Haarlem, Netherlands, and around 1379 or 1380 he moved to Brussels. Some historians...
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