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Hulin de Loo, Georges
Early Flemish paintings in the Renders Collection at Bruges: exhibited at the Belgian Exhibition, Burlington House, January 1927 — London, 1927

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behind her is a holy woman in a violet mantle and a green
and gold dress with yellow sleeves. On the right Nicodemus
is seen wearing a red cloak with long openings through which
pass the sleeves of a dark blue garment; he also wears a
fur collar and a brownish - violet hood. On the extreme
right there is a holy woman, standing, clothed in a blue - green
dress and a bluish - white mantle. St. Mary - Magdalen who
is arranging the shroud under the feet of Christ and holding
the vase of balsam, is dressed in a blue robe with bluish
sleeves and a green mantle; her head is covered with a white
It was Mr. Hulin de Loo who first compared this picture
with the Adoration of the Groote collection in Kit^burg.
As is known, this Adoration is the standard picture round
which Mr. Friedlander has assembled his C Group of
Antwerp Mannerists. This group does not consist of one
definite personality but of a number of different artists,
working perhaps for the same studio, following certain fashions
and having adopted certain traits in common. Thus the
figures in the pictures painted by this G division are fre-
quently shown with the mouth slightly open, revealing two
teeth with a small space between them; we note this very
detail in our panel which gives it, therefore, the distinctive
mark of that special studio of Antwerp Mannerists. As is
known, by that name are meant those very peculiar painters
who worked in great numbers in Antwerp, between the years
1500 and 1530; they appear to have had a kind of industrial
organisation, more or less connected with the production of
 
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