Quentin Massys Paintings

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Quentin Massys Biography

Belgian artist
born 1465 - died 1530

Quentin Massys (also: Matsys, Metsys) was the most important Antwerp artist of the first half of the XVI century.
The painter was born in Louvain c.1465/66 and probably completed his training there under the influence of Bouts. We know nothing about early Quentin Massys paintings.

After having settled in Antwerp Quentin Massys was admitted to the Antwerp St. Lukas Guild. He belonged to the circle of the humanists Petrus Aegidius and Erasmus, and was certainly influenced by their ideas. It is not known whether Quentin Massys painter traveled to Italy to study art there, as was fashionable even in his time, but his painting, which is based on the Flemish tradition, also revealed Italian influences (particularly those of Leonardo da Vinci). The central element in Quentin Massys paintings is man.

Hence his interest and talent for portraiture, which he sometimes used as the starting point for genre paintings. Thomas More called Quentin Matsys “the renovator of the old art”.
The painter died in Antwerp in 1530.