Hans Memling Brugge

Breathtaking work by Hans Memling, the Flemish Primitive in Bruges The Flemish Primitive artist Hans Memling (c. 14351494), who played a crucial role in early Netherlandish painting, is inextricably associated with Bruges. Among his most impressive creations are the St John Altarpiece and the St Ursula Shrine, which he created for St Johns Hospital in the city. Seven more of this fifteenth-century masters finest works can also be seen in Bruges, at what is now the St Johns Hospital Museum and at the Groeninge Museum. This book describes Memlings breathtaking paintings in close detail, while offering readers the opportunity to (re)discover his oeuvre as a whole. In a series of accessible essays, Anna Koopstra, curator of early Netherlandish painting at Musea Brugge, explores Memlings imagination, his technical brilliance and the cultural context in which the artist lived and worked.