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Wednesday
Dec182013

Hans Memling - Early Netherlandish Painter

DateWednesday, December 18, 2013 at 12:09PM

Hans Memling - St John Altarpiece (central panel) - 1474-79 - Oil on oak panel, 173,6 x 173,7 cm - Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges (click photo for larger image)Hans Memling (c.1430-1494) was the leading Flemish painter of the Bruges school during the period of the city’s political and commercial decline. The number of his imitators and followers testified to his popularity throughout Flanders. Memling’s art clearly reveals the influence of contemporary Flemish painters. He borrowed, for example, from Jan van Eyck, and the influence of Bouts and van der Goes can also be discerned in his works. Above all, Memling’s art reveals a thorough knowledge of, and dependence on, compositions and figure types created by Rogier van der Weyden. It’s believed by some scholars that Memling studied under the older master.

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