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Memling, Hans
Early Life, Family and Training The story of Memling, Hans begins in the Middle Main region, where he was born around 1430. His earliest years were spent in Seligenstadt, near Frankfurt, a place that would eventually be far from the Flemish lands he would come to call home. Before he could make his mark in the great cities of the north, he had to learn the secrets of his craft. He sought his initial training in the workshops of Mainz o
r Cologne, where the foundations of his technical skill were first laid through years of patient labor and observation. As his ambition grew, so did the scope of his education. Between about 1455 and 1460, he moved into the bustling atmosphere of the Brussels workshop. There, he worked under the guidance of Rogier van der Weyden, a man whose mastery of oil paint and sculptural modeling would leave a lasting imprint on the way Memling,…