biography
| name: |
Massys or Matsys, Quentin
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pronunciation:
[masees]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1466–c.1530)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Louvain, C Belgium. In 1491 he joined the painters' Guild of St Luke in Antwerp. His paintings are mostly religious and genre pictures, treated with a reverent spirit, but with decided touches of Realism (as in ‘The Banker and His Wife’). He also ranks high as a portrait painter, his best works including a portrait of Erasmus. |
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