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Dirk (or Dirck) Pietersz Crabeth (1501 – 1574) was a Dutch
in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam They came from a painting family that was employed in the glass industry of Gouda. Archival evidence survives today showing orders of glass panes from various Netherlands towns. Dirk's fame began when he won a commission to make a glass pane for the Janskerk after the fire there in 1552. Dirk's first glass depicting St. John the Baptist baptising Jesus, was installed in 1555. In his designs, he appears to have been influenced by Jan van Scorel. Many of Crabeth's original cartoons for the windows of Janskerk have survived.Vidimus,
Dirck Crabeth
'', Issue 20 (accessed 26 Aug 2012) In addition to painting and working with glass, he was a tapestry designer and mapmaker.
File:Fragment glas 7 van de St. Janskerk te Gouda - Het laatste avondmaal; maker Dirk Crabeth 1557.jpg, The Last Supper - glass 7 (middle detail) (1557)
File:Tempelreiniging.jpg, Jesus and the money changers - glass 22 (middle detail) (1557)
File:Glas in lood - Jona en de walvis.jpg, Jonah and the whale - glass 30 (ca.1565)
File:Dirk Crabeth - Judith with the head of Holofernes 2 adjusted.JPG, Judith with the head of Holofernes (1571)
File:Dirk Crabeth - Judith met het hoofd van Holofernes.jpg, Detail of Judith and her maid
Website of the St. Janskerk in Gouda with windows online
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Renaissance
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glass painter, tapestry designer, and mapmaker. He was employed by the Janskerk (Gouda) during the 16th century, where he created eight of the stained glass windows during the years 1555–1571. His windows are one of the reasons that the church was placed on the UNESCO
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list of monuments.
Biography
He and his talented brother Wouter Crabeth I were the sons of Pieter Dirckz of Gouda.Bio sketch on Dirkin Rijksmuseum Amsterdam They came from a painting family that was employed in the glass industry of Gouda. Archival evidence survives today showing orders of glass panes from various Netherlands towns. Dirk's fame began when he won a commission to make a glass pane for the Janskerk after the fire there in 1552. Dirk's first glass depicting St. John the Baptist baptising Jesus, was installed in 1555. In his designs, he appears to have been influenced by Jan van Scorel. Many of Crabeth's original cartoons for the windows of Janskerk have survived.Vidimus,
Dirck Crabeth
'', Issue 20 (accessed 26 Aug 2012) In addition to painting and working with glass, he was a tapestry designer and mapmaker.
Dirk's stained glass windows in the Janskerk of Gouda
Legacy
The stained glass windows of Gouda are famous, but this is not only for their beauty. It remains a mystery today why these stained glass windows survived the Beeldenstorm and why Dirk and his brother were allowed to continue their work after the changeover from a Catholic church to a Protestant one. The church has windows from both of the enemiesPhilip II of Spain
Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent (), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and List of Sicilian monarchs, Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598. He ...
and William the Silent. Dirk Crabeth also made 7 windows for the chapel of an order of monks from Stein, South Holland, noted as the Augustinian monastery where Erasmus went to school. When their monastery in ''Steyn'' burned in 1549, they moved to a former convent in Gouda in 1551. There they ordered windows for the restoration of the chapel of that convent. These windows were rescued during the iconoclastic fury and when the convent complex was torn down in 1580, the windows were temporarily installed afterwards in the Janskerk church. In a painting from 1734 this situation can still be seen. Much later still, they were installed in a specially built ''van der Vorm'' chapel in the St Janskerk, donated by Willem van der Vorm, the wealthy founder of the Holland America Line, in 1934.
Houbraken wrote two pages about the brothers Dirk and Wouter Crabeth in his ''Schouburg'' (1718), since he was surprised they were overlooked in Karel van Mander's '' Schilder-boeck'', who only mentioned their brother Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth (1510 —1553) was a Renaissance glass painter from the Habsburg Netherlands.
Life
Crabeth was born in Gouda, South Holland, Gouda. According to Karel van Mander, he had been the pupil of the glass painter Jan Swart van ...
. In his biographical sketch, he wrote that Gouda had a busy glass painting industry that spanned several generations.
See also
*Stained glass
Stained glass refers to coloured glass as a material or art and architectural works created from it. Although it is traditionally made in flat panels and used as windows, the creations of modern stained glass artists also include three-dimensio ...
* Medieval stained glass
* Arnold of Nijmegen
* Wouter Crabeth I
* Wouter Crabeth II
References
External links
Website of the St. Janskerk in Gouda with windows online
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