The Madonna and Child, a landscape beyond

H. Vlieghe, The Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, 1985, p.202, characterized the Antwerp school of 1550, then at it's height, as having "offshoots of refined, late-Gothic mannerism combining or co-existing with the monumentality of the Italian Renaissance and the elegance of the first Fontainebleau school. All these elements can be found in the work of the eclectic Jan Sanders van Hemessen, who became the city's leading painter".