Quentin Massys

Quentin Massys

Saint Anne Altarpiece (Brussels)Ca. 1507-1509Notion of the Holy Kinship (here from GoldenLegend)Anne is usually said to have conceived three Marys,with sequential husbands Joachim, Cleophas, andSalomas. These Marys (Mary, Mary Cleophas, andMary Salome) married Joseph, Alpheus, andZebedee. Mary and Joseph bore Christ; MaryCleophas and Alpheus bore James the Less, Josephthe Just, Simon, and Jude; Mary Salome andZebedee bore James the Greater and John theEvangelist.Exterior: story of Joachim and AnneInterior: Holy Kinship flanked by Joachim in wilderness and death of Anne

Christ Presented to thePeople (Madrid) ca. 1514

Couples and moralizing imagery

Petrus Christus, Saint Eloy 1449

Portrait of Margaret van Eyck1439

The “Ugly Duchess”1513 (London)25-3/4 x 18-1/5 in.

Drawing, Leonardo da Vinci

17th century engraving

Pontormo, Cosimo de’ Medici,ca 1518-9

Master of theHousebookUnequalLovers

Obverse: Greek-The better image willhis writings show/ Latin-The imagestruck from the living model

Reverse: Erasmus’ mascot, TerminusMotto: I yield to noneGreek: Consider the end of a long lifeLatin: Death is the extreme limit of things(Horace, Epigrams I, 167a)

• Portrait of Peter Gillis (Petrus Aegidius)Letter addressed: To the most learnedPetrus Aegidius, dearest friend at Antwerp(Letter from Thomas More)Books: Latin Plutarch, Seneca, Suetonius,Curtius Rufus (all edited by Erasmus)Also by Erasmus himself: Greek edition ofInstitutions of a Christian Prince andAntibarbari

Portrait of ErasmusBooks:Moria (for Moria encomium Praise of Folly)Loukianos (Gk edition of Lucan)Novum Testament(um)Hieronymus