Memling’s portrait of Tommaso Portinari

Here is another of Hans Memling’s portraits that so strikingly combine an overarching sense of Christian consciousness with a precise delineation of Western individuality. It is the portrait of Tommaso Portinari, husband of Maria Portinari, painted around 1470. The two portraits are part of a triptych that hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 09, 2006 11:58 PM | Send