The artist Quentin Massys was born in the Flemish province of Brabant. The form Matsys or Metsys is also used for the spelling of his name. Quentin was born the son of a blacksmith and it was not uncommon for the 15th century for sons to continue their father's trade and Quentin began working in the forge as a matter of course. According to an imaginative story, Quentin met a young girl during this time and fell in love. She is said to have been the daughter of an artist and to impress her he became an artist. However, art historians claim that Quentin was weak and sickly at a young age and could not fulfill the physically demanding work at the forge. He much preferred to pull out his sketchbook and draw.
In the 15th century, the Flemish cities showed a similar development to the Italian artistic centres. Trade brought a certain prosperity to the country and artistic centers were formed. The city of Antwerp had become the centre of Flemish painting in the 16th century. Quentin moved to the city and was admitted as a painter to the Guild of St. Luke. Massys initially devoted himself to painting religious subjects. This was later followed by works that, in addition to pure representation, can be seen as critical statements. With the depiction of the moneychanger and his wife, Massys takes up a theme that van Eyck had already approached about a century before him. A polarizing theme for the society of the time. Based on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, the painting The Grotesque Old Woman is said to have been created. A caricature that inspired Lewis Carroll to make her the Queen in Wonderland. Malicious tongues claim there is a real-life model for the painting.
Quentin Massys could read faces and play with facial expressions like few other painters of the time. He probably already used this skill quite consciously and thus reached the viewer emotionally. Massys had various artistic strategies at his disposal to increase the impact potential of his works. Quentin not only possessed the technical potential to implement the fine gestures and strong facial expressions, he also had the empathic eye to see and recognize the individual in each person. These skills made Quentin one of the leading portrait painters of his time. Thus it came about that Quentin was allowed to paint a portrait each of the scholar Erasmus and his friend Peter Gillies. According to a story, the two men were looking for a Christmas present for another mutual friend. They commissioned Quentin Massys to make two portraits. The portrait of Erasmus is one of Quentin's most famous works. It shows the scholar sitting at his desk. The room is filled with many small additions that could not have been more aptly chosen to relate to the sitter.
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.jpg "The Moneylender and His Wife by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Money Lender and his Wife, 1514 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "An Old Woman The Ugly Duchess, c1513 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Money Changer and His Wife by Quentin Metsys by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "A Grotesque Old Woman, possibly Princess Margaret of Tyrol by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Ecce Homo, Christ presented to the People by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Holy Kinship, or the Altarpiece of St. Anne, (detail) 1509 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Holy Kinship, or the Altarpiece of St. Anne (detail), 1509 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_Museo_Diocesano_Gaeta_-_(MeisterDrucke-1081010).jpg "Pieta, Museo Diocesano, Gaeta by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Adoration of the Magi by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Virgin and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, engraved by J. Corner by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Portrait of gentleman, bust-length, in a fur-lined coat, telling a rosary, set in an architectural surround by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_(Paracelsus_Aracelsus_or_T_-_(MeisterDrucke-999316).jpg "Presumed portrait of the doctor Paracelsus (1493-1541) (Paracelsus Aracelsus or Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim). Copy after the lost original of Metsys Quentin (1465-1530). Musee du Louvre by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Christ at the Column by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_Painting_by_Que_-_(MeisterDrucke-973655).jpg "Virgin and child with three angels (Central panel of a triptych) by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Virgin and Child with Saints Barbara and Catherine, c. 1518-1525 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Meditation of St. Jerome by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_(ecflam)_Lisbon_M_-_(MeisterDrucke-999125).jpg "Jesus among the Doctors by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c.1509-13 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Unequal Love or, The Mismatched Couple by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Older One Gets, the More Foolish One Becomes by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Ecce Homo by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Lamentation after the death of Christ by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Christ Presented to the People by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Christ on the Stations of the Cross by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Marriage Contract by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Virgin and Child Enthroned, with Four Angels by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Virgin Mary by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Presentation of Christ in the Temple by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Holy Kinship, or the Altarpiece of St. Anne, (detail) by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "An Allegory of Folly by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Tax Collectors by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_(1509-157_-_(MeisterDrucke-970614).jpg "Allegory of Charity by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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 reverse depicting a head of Terminus 1519 (bronze) (reverse) - (MeisterDrucke-161754).jpg "Portrait Medallion of Erasmus, Reverse Depicting a Head of Terminus, 1519 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Christ, bust-length by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Crucifixion, ca 1515 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_presenting_Christ_to_the_crowd_of_Je_-_(MeisterDrucke-988592).jpg "Ecce Homo Pontius Pilate Presenting Christ to the Crowd by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Christ Carrying the Cross by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Madonna and Child, c.1520 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Madonna and the Child by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Holy Kinship, or the Altarpiece of St. Anne (detail) by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Old Woman Tearing at Her Hair by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_(1466-_-_(MeisterDrucke-999123).jpg "The Wedding Contract by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_(1466-1530)_-_(MeisterDrucke-984744).jpg "Saint Jerome in his cell by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_Gaeta_Museo_Diocesano_-_(MeisterDrucke-1002831).jpg "Pieta by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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 1519 (bronze) (obverse) - (MeisterDrucke-200183).jpg "Portrait Medallion of Erasmus (14656-1530) 1519 (obverse) by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Christ Among the Doctors by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Salvator Mundi Saviour of the World by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Tax Collectors by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Diptych: Christ and the Virgin by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man with a Pink by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-905738).jpg "Head of an Old Man, c.1525 by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Portrait of an Ecclesiastic by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "The Vision of the Prophet Ezekiel by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1029434).jpg "Virgin and Child with Three Angels by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Old Woman Tearing at Her Hair by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Man by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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.jpg "Head of an Old Man by Quentin Massys or Metsys")
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