The Brussels Court and the Shadow of the Master Brussels, 1479. The archives record a name entering the professional sphere of the city. Pieter van Coninxloo is active, a painter emerging from a lineage where art was a family trade spanning at least six generations. His brother, Jan van Coninxloo, moves in the same circles. The details of his early life remain obscured by the passage of time, yet his presence in the records of Margare…
Scroll through Pieter van Coninxloo's working life — artwork by artwork, chapter by chapter — from the earliest dated work to the last. Each thumbnail is pinned at its exact year on the gold axis.
The ribbon is divided into shaded bands, one per career chapter. Each chapter groups Pieter van Coninxloo's works by their historical period — early training, mature practice, final years.
Every thumbnail is pinned at its precise creation year. A thin gold thread drops from the image to its exact point on the axis. Larger frames mark the artist's masterpieces by rank.
The gradient bar beneath the axis shifts colour as the dominant art movement changes over time — from the warm golds of the early period through the deeper tones of maturity. It fills progressively as you scroll.