| One of the prominent early masters of the Flemish school, Adam van Noort is best remembered today as the teacher of such notable masters as Jacob Jordaens, Peter Paul Rubens, Hendrik van Balen, and Sebastian Vrancx. The son and pupil of Lambert van Noort, Adam traveled to Italy and later entered the Antwerp St. Luke's Guild in 1587, becoming its dean in 1597. Adam's early style followed the manner of Otto van Veen and the mannerist tenets that were so important in late sixteenth-century Flanders (see, for example, his Pictura and Minerva, dated 1598, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen). Rubens, who was Noon's pupil around 1594, in turn affected the master after 1600, when Noort adopted a Rubensian palette and produced the fleshy, corpulent figures Rubens had perfected. Noort had a great reputation in the nineteenth century, but it has diminished in the twentieth when early attributions were revised. Today his oeuvre is more securely identified, and his place as an early representative of the Flemish school is more secure. |
