I wouldn’t mind trying to teach him again
Svetlana Alpers, 6 April 1995
Hans Memling: The Complete Works
by Dirk deVos.
Thames and Hudson, 431 pp., £95, October 1994,0 500 23698 4 Show More
by Dirk deVos.
Thames and Hudson, 431 pp., £95, October 1994,
“... after Memling painted Maarten van Nieuwenhove (the portrait is featured on the dust-jacket of the De Vos book), Maarten’s brother, a burgomaster and a supporter of Maximilian against the people of the town, was beheaded. Yet Maarten is depicted kneeling in prayer in front of windows giving onto a bridge over still water in a green landscape which ... ”
