Massys
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noun
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The hall said the revised attribution to Massys had led to a discussion "about the painting's artistic and spiritual importance".
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
Christ Blessing by Quentin Massys, dating from about 1500, used to hang behind the altar in the community's chapel of Campion Hall, the Jesuit home for research and study at the University of Oxford.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2025
In one corner hangs an early-16th-century painted bust of a hollow-cheeked, very tender-looking Jesus by Quentin Massys, the first important painter of the Antwerp school.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2010
It was vaguely attributed to the 15th century Flemish painter Quentin Massys.
From Time Magazine Archive
Massys led in architectural backgrounds, and from that the Italian example spread to subjects, figures, methods, until the indigenous Flemish art became a thing of the past.
From A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke
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