Artists

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  The Adoration of the Magi $AU 763.52
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  Entombment $AU 720.56
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  Ecce Homo $AU 271.91 ~ 1,699.15
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  The Moneylender and his Wife $AU 269.03 ~ 1,156.75
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  Virgin and Child $AU 260.06 ~ 1,061.08

Quentin Massys (c. 1465 Louvain - 1530 Antwerp) probably received his initial training in his native city in Belgium, but later moved to Antwerp, where he was accepted into the Guild of St. Luke as an independent master in 1491. He is known as the founder of the Antwerp School of painting. A contemporary of Albrecht Durer, Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1468-1536), Hans Holbein the Elder, Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Thomas Moore (1478-1535), Massys was the first Netherlandish painter to portray human figures as freely-acting individuals without reference to traditional Christian iconography. He clearly aligned himself initially with traditional old Netherlandish models such ad Hans Memling, Hugo van der Goes and Dierick Bouts, but his later work bears the imprint of Italian Renaissance painting, especially the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Works by the artist include The St. John Altarpiece, 1508-1511, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Cosimo de' Medici, 1513, Musee Jacquemart-Andre, Paris; and Virgin and Child, c. 1524, Gemaldegalerie, SMPK, Berlin.