# CORTVRIENDT, Jan

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## Artist

- Lifespan: ?–1681
- Profession: architect
- School: Flemish

## Biography

Flemish master joiner and architect. He worked as a joiner on the monumental oak choir-stalls \(1663\) for the abbey of Groenendaal near Brussels. When the monastery was dissolved in 1783, the stalls were transferred to Notre-Dame in Vilvoorde. They are the earliest ones in the southern Netherlands that were executed in a mature Baroque style, employing life-sized figures for the first time, here in the form of angels carrying instruments of the Passion, placed against a high wainscot with twisted columns. Cortvriendt carried out only one project as an architect; the small but notable Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Goede Bijstandkerk \(Notre-Dame de Bon Secours\) in Brussels.

## Related artworks

- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortvriendt-jan-r877aa10de66c9b/exterior-view-r100e847294eb2e>)
- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortvriendt-jan-r877aa10de66c9b/exterior-view-rb27ca04c0773da>)
- [Interior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cortvriendt-jan-r877aa10de66c9b/interior-view-r1fc81608961ab9>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)