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- Quentin Massys (born c. 1465/66, Leuven, Brabant [now in Belgium]—died 1530, Antwerp) was a Flemish artist, the first important painter of the Antwerp school. Trained as a blacksmith in his native Leuven, Massys is said to have studied painting after falling in love with an artist’s daughter.
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Mar 26, 2024 · Quentin Massys (born c. 1465/66, Leuven, Brabant [now in Belgium]—died 1530, Antwerp) was a Flemish artist, the first important painter of the Antwerp school. Trained as a blacksmith in his native Leuven, Massys is said to have studied painting after falling in love with an artist’s daughter.
Quentin Matsys (Dutch: Quinten Matsijs) (1466–1530) was a Flemish painter in the Early Netherlandish tradition. He was born in Leuven. There is a tradition alleging that he was trained as an ironsmith before becoming a painter.
Quentin Massys (Dutch: Quinten Matsijs) (1466–1530) was a painter in the Flemish tradition and a founder of the Antwerp school. He was born at Leuven, where legend states he was trained as an ironsmith before becoming a painter. Matsys was active in Antwerp for over 20 years, creating numerous works with religious roots and satirical tendencies.
- Flemish
- Leuven, Belgium
Quentin Massys. Netherlandish, 1466 - 1530. Metsys, Quentin; Massys, Quinten; Matsys, Quentin
Biography. Born 1466. Died 1530. Nationality Netherlandish. Birth place Leuven. Death place Antwerpen. Massys was highly regarded in Antwerp, as a painter of religious subjects and portraits. He had moved there from Louvain at the end of the fifteenth century when Antwerp succeeded Bruges as an important artistic centre.
The Adoration of the Magi. Quinten Massys Netherlandish. 1526. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 636. This intentionally claustrophobic composition is characteristic of the Antwerp Mannerist style of the first half of the sixteenth century. Finely wrought goldsmith’s work abounds.
Aug 17, 2023 · Quentin Massys, the Netherlandish artist who painted this work, was one of the Renaissance artists who pioneered the development of secular and satirical art. Massys shared his interest in the bizarre with his contemporary Leonardo da Vinci, who also made many studies of grotesque heads.
