Nicolas Froment

{{Short description|French painter}}

File:Nicolas Froment (1435-1486) Triptiek van het brandende braambos (1476) Kathedraal van Aix-en-Provence 22-05-2018.jpg of the Burning Bush, by Nicolas Froment, in Aix Cathedral]]

{{Infobox artist

| birth_date = {{circa|1435}}

| birth_place = Uzès, Gard

| death_date = {{circa|1486}}

| death_place = Avignon

}}

Nicolas Froment ({{circa|1435|1486}}) was a French painter of the Early Renaissance. Froment is one of the most notable representatives of the Second School of Avignon (École d'Avignon), a group of artists at the court of the Popes in Avignon, who were located there from 1309 to 1411.{{cite web|url=http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/220731/britannica Nicolas-Froment|title=Nicolas-Froment|publisher=global.britannica.com|accessdate=8 October 2014}}

He was influenced by the Flemish style that characterizes the last phase of the Gothic.{{cite web|url=painting.http://www.virtualuffizi.com/nicholas-froment.html|title=uffizi nicholas-froment|publisher=www.virtualuffizi.com|accessdate=8 October 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/nicolas-froment/|title=encyclopedie/nicolas-froment French|publisher=www.universalis.fr|accessdate=8 October 2014}}

He undertook to paint an altarpiece 12 February 1470 in Aix for a rich widow called Catherine Spifami; in the center of the panel is a depicting the Death of Mary, and on the side panels, the Saints Mary Magdalene and Catherine are shown. He was attributed a number of works from this timetime, but none of these attributions can be considered reliable.{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/7274600|title=Le culte de saint Honorat en Provence /Le_culte_de_saint_Honorat_en_Provence_et_les_pratiques_devotionnelles_sur_lile_sacree_de_Lerins_XIIIe-debut_du_XVIe_siecle_2009|publisher=www.academia.edu|accessdate=8 October 2014}}

One of the most interesting work of this group is the Retable des Pérussis or The Pérussis Altarpiece, depicts the adoration of the empty cross on Golgatha, and is located at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.{{cite web|url=http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/436336|title=The Pérussis Altarpiece |publisher=www.metmuseum.org|accessdate=8 October 2014}}