| | Dante Gabriel Rossetti's "For a Virgin and Child, by Hans Memmelinck" (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | This emphasis upon prophecy and its completion occurs again in the sonnet "For a Virgin and Child, by Hans Memmelinck," which may have been written about the left panel of the Diptych of Martin van Nieuwenhove. |
 | | The difficulty with identifying the painting about which Rossetti writes is that the subtitle to his poem asserts it is "In the Academy of Bruges," and I have been unable to find a work either by Memlinc or which may have been attributed to him that matches Rossetti's description. |
 | | The Diptych of Martin van Nieuwenhove is in the Hospital of St. John, Bruges, and Rossetti may simply have made a mistake here, as he did when he confused the subject of Gerard David's Judgment of Cambyses (see Letters, I, 85+n). |
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