Jan Borman

In the same year, he was probably responsible for making the wooden model for the bronze tomb of Mary of Burgundy in the Church of Our Lady in Bruges.

[1] Borman made a large, signed and dated altarpiece dedicated to St. George for the Guild of Crossbowmen in Leuven in 1493, today housed in the Art & History Museum, Brussels.

Borman's style has been described, in connection with his famous 1493 altarpiece, as characterised by "[...] meticulously carved decorative details of costume, hair and beards, [and an] agile, exaggerated sense of movement using twisting and swaying poses, the slender figures often placed with their backs to the viewer and swathed in heavy, angular, folded drapery.

The large number and the uneven quality of the work imply that his name indicates a whole workshop rather than an individual master.

In addition, there are altarpieces in Vadstena Abbey and a number of smaller Swedish churches, e.g. Jäder, Skepptuna, Bro and Ytterselö.