Massys

American  

[mah-sahys] / ˈmɑ saɪs /

noun

1. Quentin 1466?–1530, Flemish painter.

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Massys British  

/ ˈmasaɪs /

noun

1. Quentin (ˈkventin). 1466–1530, Flemish painter, based in Antwerp; noted for his portraits and scenes of everyday life

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Example Sentences

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

The hall said the revised attribution to Massys had led to a discussion "about the painting's artistic and spiritual importance".

From BBC

See, Cutter, they've been a hurtin' on him—he's a cryin' now—oh the massys!

From Project Gutenberg

The leap can be judged from the contrast between “The Virgin and Child Enthroned With Four Angels” painted around 1495 by Quinten Massys and “The Virgin and Child in a Landscape,” done around 1515-1520 possibly by Bernaert van Orley.

From New York Times

This is the subject of our panel-painting in which these two great masters collaborated; the landscape and the smaller figures by Patinir, the group of the Holy Family in the foreground by Quentin Massys.

From Project Gutenberg