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1446-52 Oil on wood, 215 x 560 cm Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune. The Last Judgment polyptych is Rogier van der Weyden's largest work. Together with the Van Eyck brothers' Adoration of the Lamb, this is one of the absolute masterpieces of the golden age of Flemish painting. The enormous polyptych is made up of fifteen panels of different sizes.
Video transcript. (piano playing) Steven: We're in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and we're looking at a Rogier van der Weyden, one of the great Flemish artists of the 15th century. This is his crucifixion. Beth: It's divided into three parts that are connected by hinges. But it didn't always look this way.
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Rogier van der Weyden's LastJudgment altarpiece in the the painting described in an inventory of I50i as the Hotel-Dieu at Beaune (figs. i and 2) is one of the rare main altarpiece of the ward chapel in the H'tel-Dieu.2 early Netherlandish paintings whose artist, original lo- This inventory does not identify the artist of the poly- cation, date ...
Apr 15, 2024 · Rogier van der Weyden (born 1399/1400, Tournai [Belgium]—died June 18, 1464, Brussels) was a Northern Renaissance painter who, with the possible exception of Jan van Eyck, was the most influential northern European artist of his time. Though most of his work was religious, he produced secular paintings (now lost) and some sensitive portraits.
Rogier van der Weyden: The Complete Works. Antwerp,1999, pp. 252 – 65. The polyptych is known to have been completed for the Hôtel-Dieu between 1443 and 1451 as the commission of the Burgundian chancellor, Nicolas Rolin, who was born in Autun between 1376 and 1380.
Triptych of the Redemption: Last Judgement. Ca. 1450. Oil on panel. Room 058A. This triptych is the principal creation and the work that has given the name to an anonymous follower of Rogier van der Weyden, previously identified as Vrancke van der Stockt. When open the triptych shows the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden, the Crucifixion and ...
Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, c. 1435–40, oil and tempera on panel, 137.5 x 110.8 cm (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) A conversation with Dr. Christopher Atkins, Van Otterloo-Weatherbie Director of the Center for Netherlandish Art and Dr. Beth Harris.
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