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Quentin Matsys
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History & CivilizationsWho is Quentin Matsys in the Agency editorial?
Quentin Matsys was a Flemish painter who worked in Antwerp in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Issue.26 names him once, in the credit of an image: the portrait of Paracelsus shown in the edition is described as a portrait after Quentin Matsys.
In short
Quentin Matsys was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp, who died in 1530. In the Agency editorial he appears only in Issue.26, the edition about pharmakon, in the credit of one image. The image is the portrait of Paracelsus that follows the paragraph presenting the Swiss physician. Its caption calls Paracelsus a bombastic doctor and gives the credit as a portrait after Quentin Matsys, in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The author's prose does not name the painter and says nothing about him.
Key facts
- Who was Quentin Matsys?
- A Flemish painter who worked in Antwerp and died in 1530. One of his best-known paintings is The Moneylender and His Wife, from 1514.
- Where does the Agency editorial name Quentin Matsys?
- Only in Issue.26, once, in the credit of the portrait of Paracelsus, in the section 26.2 Remedy as Pharmakon.
- What does the credit in Issue.26 say?
- That the image is a portrait after Quentin Matsys, in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The credit does not say that Matsys himself painted the image shown.
Who was Quentin Matsys?
Quentin Matsys was a Flemish painter who worked in Antwerp and died in 1530. The Moneylender and His Wife, painted in 1514, is one of his best-known works. These facts come from outside the edition and are marked for verification.
How does Quentin Matsys appear in Issue.26?
Issue.26 names him only in an image credit. After presenting Paracelsus by his full name, the edition shows a portrait of the physician. The caption calls him a bombastic doctor and adds, in parentheses, that the image is a portrait after Quentin Matsys, in the public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The author's prose does not mention the painter.
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