HANS MEMLING - VIRGIN AND CHILD  with Maarten van Nieuwenhove, 1487 & SIBYLLA SAMBETHA 1480

HANS MEMLING (c. 1430 – 11 August 1494)

In 1465 Memling is mentioned for the first time in the city books of Bruges. In 1480 he is considered to belong to the group of wealthy inhabitants of the city. He married Anna de Valkenaere and had three children with her. He died in Bruges on August the 11th 1494 and was buried in the local St.Gilles church. The reason why some of his most beautiful paintings were made for the St. John's Hospital has given rise in the 19th century to a legend about his arrival in Bruges. Hans Memling might have been a soldier in the army of Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy. When he arrived severely wounded in Bruges he was taken care of by the sisters and brothers of the Hospital. To reward them he made the paintings that are still to be seen in the Memling Museum.

With the exception of his devotional works, this painting is the only Memling portrait of an individual woman to have survived. At the same time, it functions as an exemplar of the well-to-do Flemish townswoman of the final decades of the fifteenth century. Her almost nun-like appearance, with her pale face and severely swept-back hair, starched, transparent headdress and dark clothes, is ornamented only by an olive-green belt, worn high, a wine-red chest-piece, and several rings and a necklace studded with precious stones. She poses in devout reverie against a darker void, her hands clasped primly together.

MEMLINGSCHRIJN MEMLING & URSULALEGENDE     MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS BRUGES

Myn hert altijt heeft verlanghen

Pierre de la Rue 1450 - 1518

Paula Bär-Giese - soprano

Francis Evers - mezzo soprano

Hans Meijer - lute

MEMLING SCHRIJN

The Stichting Musick’s Monument produces Historical Art Productions. Pictures, music and text are integrated: You will hear music from the same period and the same area of origin as the visual materials; these are supplemented with explanatory text. From this combination evolves something like a Gesamtkunstwerk (a total work of art), a complete new way of digital art presentation .

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