Hans Memling

The Sabaudian Gallery is an art collection in Turin, Italy, which contains the royal art collections amassed by the House of Savoy over the centuries. The collection unites the works from the Royal Palace of Turin, the picture gallery of the Savoy-Carignano, and the artworks from the Palazzo... Durazzo of Genoa, acquired in 1824. Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy commissioned the brothers Zuccari to design the gallery. On October 2, 1832, King Charles Albert of Savoy inaugurated the royal gallery, containing 365 paintings. The collection was transferred in 1865 to the Palazzo dell'Accademia delle Scienze where it stands today, alongside with the Egyptian Museum.
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Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting represents the 16th century response to Italian Renaissance art in the Low Countries. These artists, who span from the Antwerp Mannerists and Hieronymus Bosch at the start of the century to the late Northern Mannerists such as Hendrik Goltzius and Joachim... Wtewael at the end, drew on both the recent innovations of Italian painting and the local traditions of the Early Netherlandish artists. Antwerp was the most important artistic centre in the region. Many artists worked for European courts, including Bosch, whose fantastic painted images left a long legacy. Jan Mabuse, Maarten van Heemskerck and Frans Floris were all instrumental in adopting Italian models and incorporating them into their own artistic language. Dutch and Flemish painters were also instrumental in establishing new subjects such as landscape painting and genre painting. Joachim Patinir, for example, played an important role in developing landscape, while Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Aertsen helped popularise genre painting. Italian Renaissance influences begin to show on Early Netherlandish painting around 1500, but in many ways the older style was remarkably persistent.
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