Quinten Metsys

Metsys paints Antwerp money and faces — a banker and his wife weighing coins, grotesque caricatures, sharp Flemish detail with an Italian softness in the flesh.

Quinten Metsys (1466–1530) was a painter from Belgium, associated with Northern Renaissance.

The 15th–16th-century flowering of the Low Countries and Germany — oil glazes, microscopic detail, and sharp, worldly realism. Northern Renaissance →

More Northern Renaissance painters: Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch.