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Matthijs Bril or Matthijs Bril the Younger〔Many name variations are known including: Mathijs Bril (II), Mattheus Bril, Mattheus Bril (II), Matthijs Bril (II), Matthys Bril, Matthys Bril (II), Matthijs Brill, Matthijs Brilli, Mateo Brilli, Mateo Brillo, Matthijs Prüll〕 (1550, Antwerp – 8 June 1583, Rome) was a Flemish painter specialised in landscapes. He spent most of his active career in Rome where he introduced the northern style of landscape painting. ==Life== Matthijs was the son of the painter Matthijs Bril the Elder (?, probably Breda; - c. 1550, Antwerp).〔(Biographical details ) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History 〕 Matthijs and his younger brother Paul Bril likely started their artistic training with their father in Antwerp.〔(Nicola Courtright. "Bril." ) Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 16 Apr. 2014〕 Matthijs moved to Rome probably around 1575. In Rome he worked on several frescoes in the Vatican Palace including the ''Views of Rome with the Translation of the Remains of St. Gregory Nazianzus'', executed soon after the actual transfer of the saint's remains in June 1580.〔 Matthijs was joined by his younger brother Paul probably around or after 1582.〔(Nicola Courtright. "Paul Bril." ) Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 16 Apr. 2014〕〔(Biographical details of Paul Bril ) at the Netherlands Institute for Art History 〕 Mathijs Bril’s second project in Rome was in the Tower of the Winds. This building in the Vatican Palace was built between 1578 and 1580 after a design by the Bolognese architect Ottaviano Mascherino as an astronomical observatory to study the Gregorian Calendar Reform implemented by pope Gregory XIII.〔(The Tower of Winds ) at Archivum Secretum Vaticanum〕 With the assistance of his brother Paul, Matthijs Bril decorated four rooms with biblical cycles in landscape friezes and two rooms with topographical views of Rome and imaginary vedute within an illusionistic framework.〔 He also painted landscapes in two rooms of the Palazzo Orsini in Monterotondo (north of Rome), which he signed with small glasses (a pun on his surname as the Flemish word 'bril' means 'glasses').〔 When Matthijs died in 1583, his brother continued his work, picking up many of Matthijs' commissions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthijs Bril」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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