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memling: pious little pictures
The painting of A Lady with a Pink hangs in New York’s Metropolitan Museum. The pink, a flower that can symbolize betrothal, was the creation of Hans Memling whose realistic, but highly refined portraits mirrored fifteenth century Flemish society. Hans … Continue reading
KNIGHTY-NIGHT TO THE ART-RISTOCRATS
The latter years of the fourteenth-century and the early years of the fifteenth were the grimmest period in French history. Between the Black Death, the everlasting war with England, plundering raids, taxies and levies; circumstances conspired to reduce the voice … Continue reading
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Tagged Angers Apocalypse Tapestries, Angers tapestries, Bible Apocalypse, Book of Revelation, Charles the Bold, Claus de Werve, Duc de Berry, Duke of Bedford, Duke of Burgundy, Gothic Sculpture, Hieronymous Bosch, International Style, Jean Duc de Berry, Larry Solomon, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Louis Duke of Anjou, Medieval Illuminated manuscripts, Nicolas Bataille, Northern Renaissance Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, S. Agnes, Sean Martinfield, The Royal Gold Cup, The Royal Gold Cup of England and France
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A FALLING TIDE LIFTS ALL EGOS
there were some wild times in Bruges. It was a city that had the virtue of living dangerously for a while. Their innovations on medieval financing through the Bill of Exchange and expertise as serving as a market maker that … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Baldwin Iron Arm, Bruges, Charles the Bold, Froissart Chronicles, Gerard David, Hans Memling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, History of Bruges, Isabella of Portugal, James M. Murray, Jan van Eyck, Jean C. Wilson, Jean Froissart, Madame de Beaugrant, Marc Boone, Morris L. Cohen, Philip the Good, Southey, Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth
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RESTLESS SPIRITS IN A SILT BOUND CITY
In Bruges, it is said that holy candles burn all night in the houses on the eve of All Souls, and the bells toll till midnight, or even till morning. people, too, often set lighted candles on the graves. A … Continue reading
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Tagged All Souls Day, Bruges La Morte, Charles the Bold, Colard Mansion, Dr. Richard Ingersoll, Duke Philip the Good, Elliott O'Donnell, Felicien Rops, Forence Marryat, Geoffrey Chaucer, Georges Rodenbach, Gerard David, Gilles Binchois, Giovanni Arnolfini, Hans Memling, Jan van Eyck, Lucien Levy-Dhurmer, Patrick Bernauw, Petrus Christus, Robert Frazer, Sir james Robert Fraser, The Lost Dutchman, Van Eyck, William Caxton
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