The Last Judgement by Hans Memling not go to an exhibition in Rome. Pomeranian Provincial Conservator refused to transport more than 500-year-old image abroad – told our reporter Cuba Kaluga.
Overall condition of the image is good, but the last meaningful studies date back 12 years – among other things, that the Pomeranian Voivodeship Conservator explains the lack of approval for the export of the Last Judgement by Hans Memling exhibition in Rome.
The biggest questionable face the so-called survivor – a small piece of the triptych. It is appended to the image on a thin tin plate. Theoretically could fall off during transportation if the conditions change the image storage.
Risk can not be ruled out, so I do not want him to take – explained Dariusz Chmielewski.
National Museum can still appeal against the decision to the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
The Last Judgement by Hans Memling is the second – the Lady with an Ermine – the most valuable painting in Polish collections.
best work of Memling. His story is unusual
“The Last Judgement” was painted by Hans Memling before 1471., And is considered his best work. The painter came from the Lower Rhine, almost 30 years of his creative life in Bruges. The image in the triptych is the sole work of the Dutch creator of the Polish museum collections.
The work was commissioned by the Medici bank subsidiary of Bruges and had to get to one of the churches in Florence. In 1473. Transported on board a galleon under Burgundian flag of Saint Matteo image along with other booty was captured by a privateer Paul Beneke Gdańsk. His ship blocked the English waters during the war with England of the Hanseatic League. Beneke gave the image of St Mary’s Church in Gdańsk. Return triptych unsuccessfully demanded the duke of Burgundy, the Medici, and even Pope Sixtus IV.
In the subsequent years of the entry into possession of the triptych also courted the emperor Rudolf II and Tsar Peter I. In 1807., In the time of Napoleon Bonaparte , the picture was sent to Paris. From the Louvre after eight years went to Berlin. After the intervention of the King of Prussia work of Memling in 1817. Returned to Gdansk. At the end of World War II, the Nazis deported image to Thuringia, where it was found by the Red Army. Before the end of 1956. “Judgement” returned to Polish was exhibited in Leningrad Hermitage. Today, the picture can be seen in the National Museum in Gdańsk.
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