Memling

Also Mem·linc

[mem-ling]

noun

1. Hans c1430–94?, German painter of the Flemish school.

Memling

/ ˈmɛmlɪŋ, ˈmɛmlɪŋk /

noun

1. Hans (hɑns). ?1430–94, Flemish painter of religious works and portraits

Example Sentences

The faces are at once classically familiar and deeply strange, like Northern Renaissance portraiture pushed through a Cubist sieve, Hans Memling’s “Portrait of Barbara van Vlaendenbergh” worked over with a tire iron.

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In 1473, the first known art heist occurred when pirates seized Hans Memling's "The Last Judgment" as it was traveling from Belgium to Florence.

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During Memling’s lifetime, his work made its way to Italy, France, England and Poland.

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In Hans Memling’s famous dual portraits of Tommaso and Maria Portinari — Florentines living in the artist’s home city of Bruges — the two approaches merge.

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Now, the Met’s conservators are showing off ongoing beauty treatments in their skylit duplex studio: before-and-after shots of a zhuzhed-up late Rembrandt, a rainbow cross-section of a Picasso with 14 layers of paint, and an underlying portrait design by Memling revealed through the new technique of macro X-ray fluorescence scanning.

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