Monogrammist M.H.V.H.

Monogrammist M.H.V.H. painted a single, grand city scene: *Joyous Entry of François, Duke of Anjou into Antwerp, 19 February 1582, with a Triumphal Arch on St. Jan's Bridge* (1600–01). A Flemish hand from the late 1500s, he left no other signed works, so this crowded oil pageant—flags, arches, and cheering crowds—stands as his only confirmed record. The painting turns Antwerp’s 1582 pageant into a living map of power and pageantry. See how the duke’s procession crawls over St. Jan’s Bridge and under a towering arch for a taste of the city’s heady, fleeting moment.