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9 unusual facts about Hans Memling


Ashby de la Zouch Castle

Surviving artworks from the former period include for an altarpiece, The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors, or the Donne Triptych as painted by Hans Memling in circa 1478.

Life of Christ

Hans Memling's Scenes from the Passion of Christ and Advent and Triumph of Christ are examples of a large number of scenes, in these case over twenty, shown in a single bird's eye view image of Jerusalem; another is illustrated here.

Mariotto Albertinelli

Albertinelli's paintings bear the imprint of Perugino's sense of volumes in space and perspective, Fra Bartolomeo's coloring, the landscape portrayal of Flemish masters like Memling, and Leonardo's Sfumato technique.

Mömlingen

Historical research leaves no doubt that the forebears of the famous painter Hans Memling, born about 1435 in Seligenstadt, came from Mömlingen.

Salvator Mundi

The theme was made popular by Northern painters such as Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Albrecht Dürer.

Sir John Donne

In the 1470s he commissioned the Donne Triptych, an triptych altarpiece by Hans Memling now in the National Gallery, London.

The Donne Triptych by Hans Memling would presumably have been made in Bruges, and is believed to date from the 1470s.

Till-Holger Borchert

He has curated a number of major exhibitions, including "Memling's Portraits", which showed in Bruges, at the Frick Collection in New York and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.

Turkish carpet

These terms make reference to their depiction in minute detail in paintings by Lorenzo Lotto, Hans Holbein the Younger and Hans Memling.



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