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Also Known As Hans Memlinc
Born Between c.1430 and 1440 • Seligenstadt • Germany
Died August 11, 1494 • Brugge • Belgium
Movement / Style Early Netherlandish art • Flemish art • Ghent-Bruges school

Photos

Madonna and Child with Angels, oil on panel by Hans Memling, after 1479; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 57.6 × 46.4 cm.
Angel playing a psaltery, detail from the left panel of Christ with Singing and Musical Angels, oil on oak panel by Hans Memling, 1489–90; in the Royal Museum of Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium. This triptych was once part of a large altarpiece commissioned by the abbey church of Nájera, Spain.
“Diptych with Madonna and Martin van Nieuwenhove” (left wing), oil on panel by Hans Memling, 1487; in the Memling-Museum, Brugge, Bel.
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