Critical Opinion
Erwin Panofsky in his 1953 Early Netherlandish Painting (p. 347), says of Memling: "...while the Romantics and the Victorians considered his sweetness the very summit of Medieval art, we feel inclined to compare him to a composer such as Felix Mendelssohn: he occasionally enchants, never offends, and never overwhelms. His works give the impression of derivativeness..."
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