Hans Memling in Bruges

Anna Koopstra (b. 1980) previously worked at the Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and The National Gallery in London. She also worked as a guest curator for Museum Helmond and as a researcher at the World Museum in Rotterdam, among other places. Koopstra studied art history at the University of Groningen, where she specialised in 15th-century painting in the Southern Netherlands and wrote a thesis on material research on the oeuvre of Jan van Eyck. She received her doctorate from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London in 2016 with a dissertation on the early 16th-century artist Jean Bellegambe.

• 10 Introduction14 Hans Memling (active 1465–1494)20 Triptych of John the Baptist and Johnthe Evangelist (St John Altarpiece)44 St John’s Hospital: From the twelfthto the twenty-first century55 Painting in the Burgundian Netherlands64 Annunciation72 St Ursula Shrine97 Bruges and the world, 1450–1500104 Memling’s patrons112 Triptych with Sts Christopher,Maurus and Giles (Moreel Triptych)127 Memling then and now132 Triptych with the Adoration of the Magi(Floreins Triptych)146 Triptych with the Lamentation of Christ(Reins Triptych)161 ‘The most accomplished and excellentpainter of the whole Christian world’167 Memling as portrait painter172 Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove184 Portrait of a Young Womanor Sibylla Sambetha190 Donor Portrait of Francisco (?) de Rojas198 Conclusion202 Further reading