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Item Number: 131054
Title: MEMLING Rinascimento fiammingo
Author: Borchert, Till-Holger
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788857225128
Description: Milano: Skira, 2014. 31cm., hardcover, 247pp., 150 color illus. Exhibition held at Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma. Italian text. Summary: Memling and Italy sets out to provide as broad an audience as possible with the opportunity (for the very first time in Italy) to gain an insight into the art of Hans Memling, who was to become the most important painter in Bruges between 1465 and 1494. Of German descent (he is thought to have been Rogier van der Weyden's assistant until the latter's death in 1464), Memling eventually settled in Bruges which was the financial hub of the Low Countries. Some of the first commissions that he received were from such important patrons as Abbot Jan Crabbe of the Abbaye des Dunes, Bishop Ferry of Clugny and Angelo Tani, who ran the Bruges branch of the Medici bank. Memling's work reveals the dominant influence of his presumed master, Rogier van der Weyden - an influence which the exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale will be exploring in particular depth, offering visitors the chance to make direct comparisons. Angelo Tani introduced Memling to Tommaso Portinari, who commissioned him to paint a devotional triptych and a Passion of Christ. Thanks to these commissions from Tani and Portinari, Memling began to build up a reputation for himself with other members of the Italian merchant community in Bruges (the so-called Nationes), and indeed it has even been pointed out that the figures in the Last Judgement triptych in Danzig - an absolute masterpiece which we hope can become the visual linchpin of this whole exhibition - include the portraits of several Florentine bankers. Even if this hypothesis has not been borne out by comparing the features portrayed with those in other known portraits of these figures, it remains an unquestioned fact that Memling was to become the most famous portrait painter in the circle of Italian merchants in Bruges and that he revolutionised portrait painting by introducing backgrounds into his portraits. An extensive selection of portraits of Italian merchants on display in the exhibition, set alongside a number of his more traditional portraits, will serve to illustrate this particular aspect of his work. A third, broader section of the exhibition will explore the commissions which Memling and some of his contemporaries received from Italian merchants, either directly or through go-betweens. This section will contain work commissioned by those families in Bruges, such as the Adorno or the Moreel families, who were of Italian origin but who had joined the ranks of the local Flemish aristocracy long before Memling's time.
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