Massys

See, Cutter, they've been a hurtin' on him—he's a cryin' now—oh the massys!

The leap can be judged from the contrast between “The Virgin and Child Enthroned With Four Angels” painted around 1495 by Quinten Massys and “The Virgin and Child in a Landscape,” done around 1515-1520 possibly by Bernaert van Orley.

This is the subject of our panel-painting in which these two great masters collaborated; the landscape and the smaller figures by Patinir, the group of the Holy Family in the foreground by Quentin Massys.

In one corner hangs an early-16th-century painted bust of a hollow-cheeked, very tender-looking Jesus by Quentin Massys, the first important painter of the Antwerp school.

His work, despite its powerful integrity of style, was open to all kinds of influence: portrait proto types ranging from Leonardo to Titian, the work of the Fontainebleau mannerists, Quinten Massys, English court miniaturists, Darer and Mathi as Gr�newald.