# MANUEL, Niklaus [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1484–1530 - Profession: painter - School: Swiss ## Biography Swiss painter and poet and statesman; formerly sometimes wrongly called N. M. Deutsch on the basis of his monogram N.M.D.: the "D" is now thought to stand for the surname "Degen". As a member of the Inner Council of Berne, Manuel had an important influence on the debates on religious reform, having already made a name with plays attacking ecclesiastical abuses. As a painter Manuel was obviously affected by the work of Dürer and Baldung Grien; but his richly coloured pictures of biblical and mythological subjects frequently have dramatic effects of lighting and mood of landscape peculiar to him. His paintings include: The Execution of John the Baptist and the Judgement of Paris. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Death]() - [St Eligius in the Workshop]() - [St Luke Painting the Madonna \(detail\)]() - [The Judgment of Paris]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()