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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Memling, Hans Creator Nationality: European; Flemish Creator Dates/Places: c.1440-1494 Creator Name-CRT: Hans Memling Title: Portrait of a Man View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1460 Creation End Date: 1480 Creation Date: c. 1470 Object Type: Paintings Materials and Techniques: oil on panel Dimensions: 13 1/8 x 9 1/8 in. (33.5 x 23.2 cm.) AMICA Contributor: The Frick Collection Owner Location: New York, New York, USA ID Number: 68.1.169 Credit Line: Purchased Rights: http://www.frick.org Context: The thriving trade centers of the Netherlands provided an international market for talented artists such as Memling. However, the plain coat worn by the subject of this portrait offers no clue to his nationality, occupation, or rank. The serious, firmly modeled head suggests a man who was not only forceful but thoughtful. Although he is physically placed close to the viewer, his body pressed against the frame, he appears aloof and removed from the world. Panels such as this often served as covers or wings for small private altarpieces, but it seems probable that the Frick example, like many others dating from the second half of the fifteenth century, was commissioned as an independent painting. Memling was one of the most admired portraitists of his day,in Italy as well as in Northern Europe, owing both to his skill in capturing physical likenesses and to his even rarer gift of conveying, as in this portrait, the intellectual and spiritual character of his subjects. Related Document Description: New York, The Frick Collection. Art in the Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts [cat.]. Comp. C. Ryskamp, et al., 1996, p.46 (reproduced in color). AMICA ID: TFC_.Memling.68-1-169 AMICA Library Year: 1999 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Frick Collection, New York, 1999 AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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