Mitzi Kirkland-Ives

A social history of the fifteenth-century German painter's influence. Emigrating from southern Germany in the late fifteenth century, painter Hans Memling sought success in Bruges, a vibrant commercial hub at the time. Rather than among the nobility or ecclesiastical institutions, he found his audience in the new urban middle class of merchant bankers, financiers, politicians, affluent clerics, and artisans. He...