Full Description
The Flemish Primitive artist Hans Memling (c. 1435-1494), who played a crucial role in early Netherlandish painting, is inextricably associated with Bruges. Among his most impressive creations are the St John Altarpiece and the St Ursula Shrine, which he created for St John's Hospital in the city. Seven more of this 15th-century master's finest works can also be seen in Bruges, at what is now the St John's Hospital Museum and at the Groeninge Museum.
This book describes Memling's breathtaking paintings in close detail, while offering readers the opportunity to (re)discover his oeuvre as a whole.
Text in English and Dutch.
Contents
10 Introduction
14 Hans Memling (active 1465-1494)
20 Triptych of John the Baptist and John
the Evangelist (St John Altarpiece)
44 St John's Hospital: From the twelfth
to the twenty-first century
55 Painting in the Burgundian Netherlands
64 Annunciation
72 St Ursula Shrine
97 Bruges and the world, 1450-1500
104 Memling's patrons
112 Triptych with Sts Christopher,
Maurus and Giles (Moreel Triptych)
127 Memling then and now
132 Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi
(Floreins Triptych)
146 Triptych with the Lamentation of Christ
(Reins Triptych)
161 'The most accomplished and excellent
painter of the whole Christian world'
167 Memling as portrait painter
172 Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
184 Portrait of a Young Woman
or Sibylla Sambetha
190 Donor Portrait of Francisco (?) de Rojas
198 Conclusion
202 Further reading
