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The Madonna and Child with a Member of the Hillensberger Family
Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
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The Madonna and Child with a Member of the Hillensberger Family

Artist/Maker (Flanders, ca. 1500-before 1551)
Date1513
Mediumoil on wood
DimensionsSight: 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (31.1 x 21 cm)
Framed: 26 1/2 x 19 x 3 in. (67.3 x 48.3 x 7.6 cm)
ClassificationsVisual Works
Credit LineGift of The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Terms
    Object number61.006.000
    DescriptionThe Madonna and Child with a Member of the Hillensberger Family is an extremely well preserved example of a small devotional altarpiece consisting of two panels hinged together. The identification of the donor as a member of the Hillensberger family of Hanover is established by the coat of arms appearing on the back of the right-hand wing, and on the signet ring worn by the young man on the index finger of his left hand. The inscription at the bottom of the frame records that the young man was thirty-two years old at the time the work was completed on 16 February 1513, but his precise identity has not been discovered. Like many other artists working in Bruges in the first half of the sixteenth century, Isenbrandt was a conservative painter who maintained fifteenth-century Northern Renaissance traditions of microscopic realism, disguised symbolism, and jewel-like color. For this painting he derived the composition and iconography of the Madonna and Child from Jan van Eyck’s Virgin of the Canon can der Paele of 1436.
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    On view
    Collections
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Lorenzo di Credi
    ca. 1500
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Sano di Pietro
    ca. 1460-1480
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Bernardino Fungai
    ca. 1510-1515
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Boccaccio Boccaccino
    ca. 1510
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    Benedetto Diana
    ca. 1504
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Benvenuto Tisi da Garofalo
    ca. 1535
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Artist Unknown
    collected 1932
    Collection of the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
    Bamana people
    not dated