The US philanthropist and former diplomat Bill Middendorf has donated a 15th-century altarpiece panel by Hans Memling to the Memling Museum in Bruges, the city where it was painted over 500 years ago.

Portraiture is not an art commonly associated with pictorial perfection. In much modern portraiture, aggressive attempts to convey the inner life of the portrait’s subject have resulted in excessive ...

In the Middle Ages, when lives were brief and 'œfear of eternity great, portraits served a kind of talismanic function,' said Holland Cotter in The New York Times. They provided a way to transcend ...

The Closer to Memling Experience at Museum St John’s Hospital in Bruges, Belgium, is a groundbreaking digital and interactive installation that immerses visitors in the world of Hans Memling, a ...

The card is a reproduction of Hans Memling's "Maria Mit Dem Kinde," or Mary with the Child. Seated on a throne, a blonde-haired Mary is dressed in red and has the baby Jesus on her lap. He is reaching ...

The known facts of Hans Memling’s (ca. 1435–94) life are few. He was likely born in Seligenstadt, Germany, and almost certainly spent time in Rogier van der Weyden’s workshop in Brussels before moving ...

The exhibition Memling And The Portrait is one of the biggest art events of the year, an international collaboration currently showing in Madrid, moving to the Groeninge Museum in Bruges from 8 June ...

Two late-fifteenth-century panels, depicting a pair of pious Flemings accompanied by their favorite saints, have left their usual spot in Mr. Morgan’s study to reunite with the Crucifixion they were ...

Seeing the glory of God in even the smallest created things, Flemish monks of the 15th Century used to make a point of it in such dissertations as On the Beauty of the Louse. Flemish painters, whose ...