Netherlandish, Flemish and German Art to 1600
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 23 paintings that date from between 1470 and 1600. This collection includes oil paintings on panel made by artists who were born and/or worked primarily in Flanders, the Netherlandish regions or the Germanic states. The most important paintings in this collection were either donated by Sir William Burrell in 1944 or bequeathed by Archibald McLellan in 1854. These include two works attributed to Lucas Cranach's workshop, two works previously attributed to Hans Memling but recently re-attributed to 'the Master of the Prado Adoration of the Magi', a beautiful 'Virgin and Child by a Fountain' from the workshop of Bernard van Orley, and 'Christ taking leave of his Mother' attributed to Pieter Coecke, among several others. Another fine and dramatic painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 'Judith with the Head of Holofernes', was purchased for the Burrell Collection in 1995. An interesting and potent religious work of the Reformation period, 'Christ and the Pope' by an unknown German artist forms part of the Stirling Maxwell collection at Pollok House.
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