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Bernard van Orley -LRB- between 1487 and 1491 -- 6 January 1541 -RRB- , also called Barend or Barent van Orley , Bernaert van Orley or Barend van Brussel , was a leading artist in Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting , though he was at least as active as a leading designer of Brussels tapestry and , at the end of his life , stained glass .. Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting. Brussels tapestry. Brussels tapestry. Brussels. Brussels. Although he never visited Italy , he belongs to the group of Italianizing Flemish painters called the Romanists , who were influenced by Italian Renaissance painting , in his case especially by Raphael .. Raphael. Raphael. Romanists. Romanism ( painting ). Italian Renaissance painting. Italian Renaissance painting. He was born and died in Brussels , and was the court artist of the Habsburg rulers , and `` served as a sort of commissioner of the arts for the Brussels town council '' .. Brussels. Brussels. Habsburg. Habsburg. He was extremely productive , concentrating on the design of his works , and leaving their actual execution largely to others in the case of painting , and entirely so in the case of the tapestries and stained glass .. This too may well have been learned from Raphael , whose workshop in Rome was unprecedentedly large .. Raphael. Raphael. Accordingly , his many surviving works -LRB- somewhat depleted in number by Reformation iconoclasm -RRB- vary considerably in quality .. Reformation iconoclasm. Beeldenstorm. There are many drawings , mostly studies for designs for tapestries and stained glass .. He or his workshop would have produced full-scale cartoons for the tapestries , but these were normally lost in the course of weaving , when they were cut into strips .. His paintings are generally either religious subjects or portraits , these mostly of Habsburgs repeated in several versions by the workshop , with few mythological subjects .. But his tapestries were more varied , reflecting the normal range of that medium , from biblical cycles to allegories , battle and hunting scenes .. His father had been a tapestry designer in Brussels , and several of Bernard 's descendents were artists ; a number were active in the 18th century .. Brussels. Brussels