Hans Memling
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Hans Memling (Memlinc) (c. 1430 - 11 August, 1494) was a Flemish painter, born in Germany, who was the last major fifteenth century artist in the Netherlands, the successor to Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose tradition he continued.
Critical opinions
- Erwin Panofsky in his 1953 Early Netherlandish Painting (p.347), says of Memling, rather harshly: "...while the Romantics and the Victorians considered his sweetness the very summit of Medieval art, we feel inclined to compare him to a composer such as Felix Mendelssohn: he occasionally enchants, never offends, and never overwhelms. His works give the impression of derivativeness..."
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