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Mabuse shows Antwerp influence in the large altar-pieces previously located at Castle Howard and Scawby.

The bright and decided contrasts of pigment in colored reliefs are like Hans Memling, and the cornered and packed drapery are like Van der Weyden, while the bold but Socratic cast of face are like the works of Quentin Matsys.

At Scawby he illustrates the legend of the count of Toulouse, who parted with his worldly goods to assume the frock of a hermit.

His altarpiece of the Descent from the Cross with heavy double doors in Middelburg was admired by Albrecht Dürer before the church itself was hit by lightning.

This is possibly the work now in the Hermitage, though Van Mander stated the lightning destroyed it and describes another Descent of the Cross in the possession of Mr. Magnus of Delft in 1604.