Hans Memling (c. 1430 - 1494)
Related: art - Northern renaissance - Flemish primitives - art history - Netherlands - Belgium
Triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation (front) (c.1485) Oil on oak panel, 22 x 15 cm (each wing) Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
same, detail of right wing
This triptych contrasts earthly beauty and luxury with the prospect of death and hell.
The Last Judgement (detail) (1467-71) - Hans Memling
Biography
Hans Memling (Memlinc) (c. 1430 - 1494) was a Flemish painter, whose art gave lustre to Bruges in the period of its political and commercial decline. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memling [Jan 2006]