Memling - A man holding a coin of emperor Nero
Hans Memling
A man holding a coin (Sesterce) of emperor Nero [1473-74]
Portrait of Nicolas Spinelli
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
THE earliest pictures which can with certainty be ascribed to Memlinc are the portrait of Nicolas Spinelli and the triptych of the Donne family. Spinelli, born in 1430, was in 1467 and 1468 in Flanders, in the service of Charles the Bold as seal engraver, and probably in Bruges, where members of the family were residing. In 1474 he was back in Florence; in 1493 he left Italy and settled in Lyons, where he died in 1499. His portrait, formerly in the possession of Baron Denon, was, at the sale of his collection in 1826, purchased by M. van Ertborn, who bequeathed it to the Museum at Antwerp. It is a bust; the face, in three-quarters, turned towards the left, is that of an energetic, full-blooded Italian of from thirty-five to forty years of age, with black hair escaping in long thick curls from under a black cap. He wears a black close-fitting dress, with white linen round the neck, and in his left hand holds, so as to show the entire face, a coin with a profile head of the Emperor Nero with this inscription : NERO CLAVDIUS CAESAR AVGUSTUS GERMANICUS TRIBUNICIA POTESTATI IMPERATOR. The background is a charming, well-wooded, sunny landscape traversed by a stream on which are two swans; on the farther side is a man on a white horse, and on the near bank to the left a palm tree, probably introduced to signify that the person represented was an Italian.
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Memling - A man holding a coin of emperor Nero
Hans Memling
A man holding a coin (Sesterce) of emperor Nero [1473-74]
Portrait of Nicolas Spinelli
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
THE earliest pictures which can with certainty be ascribed to Memlinc are the portrait of Nicolas Spinelli and the triptych of the Donne family. Spinelli, born in 1430, was in 1467 and 1468 in Flanders, in the service of Charles the Bold as seal engraver, and probably in Bruges, where members of the family were residing. In 1474 he was back in Florence; in 1493 he left Italy and settled in Lyons, where he died in 1499. His portrait, formerly in the possession of Baron Denon, was, at the sale of his collection in 1826, purchased by M. van Ertborn, who bequeathed it to the Museum at Antwerp. It is a bust; the face, in three-quarters, turned towards the left, is that of an energetic, full-blooded Italian of from thirty-five to forty years of age, with black hair escaping in long thick curls from under a black cap. He wears a black close-fitting dress, with white linen round the neck, and in his left hand holds, so as to show the entire face, a coin with a profile head of the Emperor Nero with this inscription : NERO CLAVDIUS CAESAR AVGUSTUS GERMANICUS TRIBUNICIA POTESTATI IMPERATOR. The background is a charming, well-wooded, sunny landscape traversed by a stream on which are two swans; on the farther side is a man on a white horse, and on the near bank to the left a palm tree, probably introduced to signify that the person represented was an Italian.
Source:
www.deyave.com/Arte/Pintura/Lives/HANS-MEMLING.html