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In a work by this artist, the title figure’s soul is shown being carried to heaven by miniature angels to a similarly small God the Father hovering over the bed in which her body remains. A red girdle trails over a windowsill near a convex mirror in a painting by this man that also features a shelf with a piece of coral and was once believed to depict St. Eligius. (10[1])Gilt letters (-5[1])“A” hang from a thorny tree (10[1])in a Madonna and child (10[1])by this artist. A man with a forked beard against a red background stares straight at the viewer in one painting (-5[1])by this artist of Madonna of the Dry Tree (-5[1])and Portrait of a Young Girl. Hans Memling and this painter of A Goldsmith in His Shop (-5[1])were the leading (10[1])painters in (-5[1])Bruges (“broozh”) after the death of Jan van Eyck. For 10 points, name this Flemish artist who included a trompe l’oeil (“tromp LOY”) fly (10[1])in his (10[1]-5[1])Portrait (-5[1])of a (-5[1])Carthusian. ■END■ (10[1]0[21])

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