Talk:Hans Memling

Inscription
Does anyone know what the inscription on the scroll of the triptych of Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation says. I can't read the left panel. In Latin, English or both (preferably)is fine. --Map88 (talk) 15:31, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Terrible Article
This article needs to be at least twice as big, it needs research and citations. It needs to not be so poorly written and not so simplistic. I've fixed some things but this article is in a tatters and anyone wanting to know about this artist is best served by not reading it. 75.48.22.62 (talk) 20:16, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

John Donne
Donne was born in 1572, and as such it seems unlikely that he could have commissioned anything from Memling's hand. Was there an earlier notable Sir John Donne? (FWIW, thanks for uploading the Death, Vanity, and Hell triptych, it's one of my favourite paintings.) -- Smerdis of Tlön 04:55, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Stub now started for correct Sir JD. The poet was never knighted of course - somebody added a lazy redirect. Johnbod 21:38, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

New Category: Renaissance
Do you really think, that Memling is a Renaissance painter. I am certainly not an expert in art, but from what I was taught in school und when looking at his marvellous pictures, I don't see a piece of Renaissance...--Kresspahl 18:53, 10 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Hans Memling is an early Renaissance painter. He was one of the first -if not the first- to paint realistic, true-to-life portraits. This is characteristic of humanism. The portrait as a genre didn't even exist in mediaeval art. - Karl Stas 12:09, 11 August 2005 (UTC)


 * hm, if this right, then renaissance wasn't generated in Italy but by a German in Flanders? That somehow blows up my understanding. I always thought the Italian Renaissance has set up on Memling but added to it more dimension--Kresspahl 18:47, 11 August 2005 (UTC)


 * The Renaissance obviously wasn't "generated" by anyone. There are obvious differences between late Gothic art and the art of the early Netherlandish painters (the so-called "Flemish Primitives": Van Eyck, van der Goes, Memling etc.), but there is no clear break between the two. There never is a clear break between periods or styles. And as we all know, the Renaissance began in Italy. The art of Giotto and the poems Petrarca were the first manifestations of a new spirit. - Karl Stas 10:45, 12 August 2005 (UTC)


 * I suggest you read the Northern Renaissance article. - Karl Stas 10:49, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup
so. is this whole article verbatim from Britannica 1911 then? W guice 21:40, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Being worked on. Needs a lot of edfiting since it is currently rather dense. RJFJR (talk) 16:23, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I don't know about dense. There's hardly anything here at all. And... there isn't much research(almost none) and no citations. Also, some rather weird and unsupportable statements can be found here. 75.48.22.62 (talk) 20:14, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Can someone correct?
I found the error quoted below in the middle of the 4th paragraph. A quick attempt to research did not reveal the answer. Can someone please correct this?

" The Last Judgment which can be found since the 1470s in the St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk."

This implies that it still is there, but at some point it was moved to the National Museum. When?

Ed8r (talk) 16:23, 10 June 2009 (UTC)


 * In 1956 to Museum Pomorski(pomeranian Museum, Gdansk)
 * Ref Faggin, 1967
 * And 21th century to the national Museum
 * https://ug.edu.pl/news/en/5494/history-hans-memlings-last-judgement-sea-eu-governing-weeks-guest-national-museum-gdansk ReijiYamashina777 (talk) 05:12, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Article was a 1911 crap
I revised the article purging of all the 1911 Britannica outdated POV and other crap. I'm planning to add separate articles for his major artworks which would cover in detail style, descriptions etc. Let me know and please help... --&#39;&#39;&#39;Attilios&#39;&#39;&#39; (talk) 08:47, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

More to do
I have fixed some things but there is still so much wrong. Part of the problem is that, as Jeff Cotton says on his excellent website (Churches of Florence), so much information online and in printed guides has been taken directly from very old material written for tourists; it has never been updated and may have been unreliable in the first place. I am going to try to find an authoritative article in my library, but I have no idea when I will be able to get back to this. (IMHO The 1911 Britannica should be banned as a Wikipedia source, or if allowed, its use should be strictly defined and controlled.)Merry medievalist (talk) 21:24, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

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