Bernard van Orley

Bernard van Orley

Bernard van Orley (between 1487 and 1491 – 6 January 1541), also called Barend or Barent van Orley, Bernaert van Orley or Barend van Brussel, was a versatile Flemish artist and representative of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, who was equally active as a designer of tapestries and, at the end of his life, stained glass. Although he never visited Italy, he belongs to the group of Italianizing Flemish painters called the Romanists, who were influenced by Italian Renaissance painting, in his case especially by Raphael. He was born and died in Brussels and "served as a sort of commissioner of the arts for the Brussels town council". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard van Orley has received more than 106,451 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Bernard van Orley is the 455th most popular painter (up from 509th in 2019), the 165th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 183rd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Belgian Painter.