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.

SAN MARINO >> Just in time for Christmas, The Huntington will showcase a version of Hans Memling’s “Christ Blessing” that has rarely been seen in the last century. Aside from a brief stint at the ...

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 ...

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 ...