Hans Memling : portraiture, piety, and a reunited altarpiece / edited by John Marciari ; with essays by Maryan W. Ainsworth, Till-Holger Borchert, Noël Geirnaert, John Marciari, Gianluca Poldi and Giovanni C.F. Villa, and Ilona van Tuinen.

Hans Memling was one of the most important, prolific and versatile painters active in 15th-century Bruges, and one of the leading artists of the Early Netherlandish School. Commissioned by Abbot Jan Crabbe, one of Memling's most signifcant and erudite patrons, the triptych of the Crucifixion - in pa...

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Main Authors: Marciari, John (Author, Editor)
Ainsworth, Maryan W. (Author)
Borchert, Till (Author)
Geirnaert, Noël (Author)
Poldi, Gianluca (Author)
Villa, Giovanni Carlo Federico (Author)
Tuinen, Ilona van (Author)
Corporate Author: Pierpont Morgan Library (Host institution)
Other Authors: Memling, Hans, 1430?-1494
Bailey, Colin B. (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: London : Published by The Flemish Research Centre for the Arts in the Burgundian Netherlands, Musea Brugge, and The Morgan Library & Museum, New York in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, [2016]
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Physical Description:112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword and acknowledgements / Colin B. Bailey
  • Preface / Till-Holger Borchert & Renaat Landuyt
  • The Triptych of Jan Crabbe
  • Memling at the Morgan: the Crabbe Triptych / John Marciari
  • Hans Memling (ca. 1440-1494): an introductory sketch / Till-Holger Borchert
  • Johannes Crabbe, abbot of Ten Duinen, 1457-88 / Noël Geirnaert
  • The evolution of Jan Crabbe's triptych / Maryan W. Ainsworth
  • A new technical study of the Vicenza Crucifixion / Gianluca Poldi & Giovanni C.F. Villa
  • Drawing from the time of Memling and his followers / Illona van Tuinen.