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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MASSYS

Flemish.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MASSYS

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MASSYS

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Massys is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MASSYS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Quentin Matsys

Quentin Matsys was a painter in the Flemish tradition and a founder of the Antwerp school. He was born at Leuven, where legend states he was trained as an ironsmith before becoming a painter. Matsys was active in Antwerp for over 20 years, creating numerous works with religious roots and satirical tendencies.

Definition of Massys in the English dictionary

The definition of Massys in the dictionary is Quentin. 1466–1530, Flemish painter, based in Antwerp; noted for his portraits and scenes of everyday life.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MASSYS

Massinger
Massinissa
massive
massively
massiveness
massless
Massora
Massorah
Massorete
Massoretic
Massoretical

WORDS THAT END LIKE MASSYS

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anyways
Arctic Monkeys
both ways
days
early days
guys
halcyon days
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Heelys
it´s early days
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Matsys
Metsys
nowadays
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weekdays

Synonyms and antonyms of Massys in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Trends of use of Massys

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MASSYS»

The term «Massys» is normally little used and occupies the 128.121 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MASSYS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Massys

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MASSYS»

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Early Netherlandish Painting
1465/1466-1530 Quentin Massys (alternative spelling Quinten or Quintin Metsys or Matsys) was born in Louvain, the son of a blacksmith. On 10 September 1494 Massys declared to the magistrates of Louvain that he was twenty-eight years ...
National Gallery of Art (U.S.), John Oliver Hand, 1986
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European Paintings in the Collection of the Worcester Art ...
Massys; knows four more panels of same altarpiece from Madre de Deus Convent; the whole article (pp. 137-59, 227_38) is reprinted in Miscellaneen aus drei Jahr- hunderten spanischen Kunstlebens, Vol. II, Berlin, 1908 (the reference to the ...
Worcester Art Museum, 1974
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Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish ...
CORNELIS MASSYS ornelis Massys, the son of the famous Antwerp painter Quentin Massys, was probably born around 1510, shortly after the birth of his elder brotherjan, who would also become a well-known painter. In the year following ...
Thomas Kren, Scot McKendrick, 2003
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Masterpieces of Western Art: A History of Art in 900 ...
To a cerrain degree in opposition to the Romamsrs amongst his conremporaties, Massys held fast to the traditions esrablished by Eatly Netherlandish att. Iralian influences, to which he was only indirecrly exposed, nevertheless make ...
Ingo F. Walther, 2002
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From Physico-theology to Bio-technology: Essays in the ...
The Louvte example was pteviously atttihuted to Jan van Scotel, hut now Quentin Massys is tegatded as the mote likely soutce, with some suggestion that Massys was himself teliant on a lost wotk hy Holhein. The lattet was fot a long time ...
Kurt Bayertz, Roy Porter, 1998
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Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective
18-15 Quinten Massys, MoneyChanger and His Wife, 1514. Oil on wood, 2 3 3–4 2 2 3–8. Louvre, Paris. Massys's painting depicting a secular financial transaction is also a commentary on 16th-century Netherlandish values. The banker's wife ...
Fred Kleiner, 2009
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Concise Global History
Quinten Massys Antwerp's growth and prosperity, along with its wealthy merchants' propensity for collecting and purchasing art, attracted artists to the city . Among them was QUINTEN MASSYS (ca. 1466–1530), who became Antwerp's leading ...
Fred Kleiner, 2008
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Peasant Scenes and Landscapes: The Rise of Pictorial Genres ...
Massys also seems to have gone on to make a much less ambiguous image of money changers, a lost image of two grotesque men in a similar small wooden stall. They should be identified either as a Banker and his Client, or more likely, ...
Larry Silver, 2012
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Panorama, Power, and History: Vasari and Stradano's City ...
1540, Cornells Massys (d. 1556), who was born in Antwerp c. 1510 and entered the Guild of St. Luke there in 1532, produced a similarly styled view of Brussels ( figure 125). The drawing shows the city from the west, outside the Hal gate, ...
Ryan E. Gregg, 2009
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, second edition
[Quentin Massys (1466-1530) was a Flemish painter and founder of the Antwerp school. He had a fondness for realistically detailed religious paintings and an uncanny ability to capture both the subtle and dramatic expressions of individual  ...
Lewis Carroll, Richard Kelly, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MASSYS»

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Through a Touch-Screen Looking Glass
Bits of paintings by other artists, including Quentin Massys, Hieronymus Bosch, Hans Holbein and Sandro Botticelli, also pop up along the way. «New York Times, Apr 15»
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What's on around Ireland this Easter weekend?
The weekend of walking around the Dublin and Wicklow hills will include hikes to the Wicklow Way, Bohernabreenam, Massys Woods and a ... «Irish Times, Apr 15»
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You need to see this Tumblr page comparing rappers with medieval …
Left: Quentin Massys. Ecce Homo-1520 - Right: 2 Chainz Open Gallery 7 Left: Quentin Massys. Ecce Homo-1520 - Right: 2 Chainz. «Irish Independent, Mar 15»
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Straight Outta Chaucer: The Connection Between Hip Hop …
Left: Ecce Homo. Quentin Massys (1520). Right: 2 Chainz. Left: Perugia Altarpiece left panel by Fra Angelico (1437). Right: Kanye West and ... «theMusic, Mar 15»
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Hip Hop VS. Art before the 16th century
Left: Quentin Massys. Ecce Homo-1520 – Right: 2 Chainz. tumblr_n3drwjT0I81txszqqo1_1280. by b4-16.tumblr.com. 3. Left: Henry VIII by the ... «The Poke, Mar 15»
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Delivery: The Beast Within Review
These are the moments meant to counterbalance all the horridly paced relationship drama that the Massys argue bitterly through, but their ... «We Got This Covered, Sep 14»
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Camera phones at the National Gallery stoke fears that technology …
She stopped at Moretto da Brescia's Portrait of a Young Man, Quinten Massys's Ugly Duchess, and Hans Holbein's The Ambassadors. At each ... «The Independent, Aug 14»
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A Bloody Beheading for Hanukkah
1616, Baden State Museum, Germany) and Jan Massys' (also NSFW) “Judith with the Head of Holofernes” (1543, MFA Boston); both painters ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Nov 13»
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Thinking big: Liechtenstein's art deal with China
One of the paintings that will be on show, an early 16th-century oil by Quentin Massys, is of two unpleasantly leering men counting coins and ... «South China Morning Post, Nov 13»
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Things Are Getting Ugly
And, Stephen adds, postcard sales of a popular painting in London's National Gallery, Quentin Massys' Ugly Duchess, rival the sales of Monet's ... «NPR, Oct 13»

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