Portrait of Maria Portinari
Hans Memling · 1470
Why it's great
A young woman in a tall black hat and a red gown with a gold necklace looks calmly out at you. Hans Memling painted Maria Portinari in about 1470, and she was the wife of a rich banker from Florence living in Bruges.
Where to see it
📍 Metropolitan Museum of ArtManhattan, United States
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Hans Memling was born in Germany in about 1435 and became the most successful painter in Bruges, in what is now Belgium. His calm, sweet and beautifully detailed religious pictures and portraits were bought by rich merchants and bankers from all over Europe. He died in Bruges in 1494.
