1509
oil
panel
From the collection of Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
De H. Maagschap is a 1509 oil by Quinten Metsys, a Northern Renaissance work, held at Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
This painting shows a large group of people in an arched courtyard. The group is mostly dressed in Renaissance-style clothing, with some people wearing simple robes and others in more elaborate attire. In the center, a woman in a white dress sits with a baby, surrounded by other figures. The background features a mountainous landscape with a castle or church visible in the distance. A quiet detail is the way the artist has used different textures and fabrics to add depth to the scene, from the smoothness of the woman's dress to the roughness of the stone walls. To learn more about the artist's use of texture and fabric, look up the technique of glazing.
Quentin Matsys (UK: MAT-sysse, US: MAHT-sysse; also Massys or Metsys; Flemish: Quinten Matsijs ; 1466–1530) was a Flemish painter in the Early Netherlandish tradition.
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