The US philanthropist and former diplomat Bill Middendorf has donated a 15th-century altarpiece panel by Hans Memling to the Memling Museum in Bruges, the city where it was painted over 500 years ago.

"Memling’s Portraits," Oct. 12-Dec. 31, 2005, at the Frick Collection, 1 East 70th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021 If there was ever a museum that doesn’t need to hold loan exhibitions, it’s the Frick ...

Portraiture is not an art commonly associated with pictorial perfection. In much modern portraiture, aggressive attempts to convey the inner life of the portrait’s subject have resulted in excessive ...

SAN MARINO >> Just in time for Christmas, The Huntington will showcase a version of Hans Memling’s “Christ Blessing” that has rarely been seen in the last century. Aside from a brief stint at the ...

Hans Memling was a German-born painter of the Early Netherlandish school known for his portraits and religious scenes. View Hans Memling’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an ...

The known facts of Hans Memling’s (ca. 1435–94) life are few. He was likely born in Seligenstadt, Germany, and almost certainly spent time in Rogier van der Weyden’s workshop in Brussels before moving ...

In the Middle Ages, when lives were brief and 'œfear of eternity great, portraits served a kind of talismanic function,' said Holland Cotter in The New York Times. They provided a way to transcend ...

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Seeing the glory of God in even the smallest created things, Flemish monks of the 15th Century used to make a point of it in such dissertations as On the Beauty of the Louse. Flemish painters, whose ...