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| LIMBOURG BROTHERS (POL, HENNEQUIN, HERMAN), May, from Les Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413-1416. Illumination, approx. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Musée Condé, Chantilly. |
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| CLAUS SLUTER, Well of Moses, Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon, France, 1395-1406. Stone, figures approx. 6' high. |
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| MELCHIOR BROEDERLAM, outer wings of the Retable de Champmol. Annunciation and Visitation (left) and Presentation and Flight into Egypt (right), installed 1399. Panels, each 65 3/4" x 49 1/4". Musée de la Ville, Dijon |
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| JAN VAN EYCK, Ghent Altarpiece (closed), Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Tempera and oil on wood, height 11' 5 3/4". |
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| JAN VAN EYCK, Ghent Altarpiece (open), Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Tempera and oil on wood, approx. 11' 6" x 15' 1". |
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| ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Deposition, ca. 1435. Tempera and oil on wood, approx. 7' 3" x 8' 7". Museo del Prado, Madrid. |
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| ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Last Judgment Altarpiece (open), ca. 1444–1448. Panel, 7' 4 5/8" x 17' 11". Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune |
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| DIRK BOUTS, Last Supper (central panel of the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament), Saint Peter's, Louvain, Belgium, 1464–1468. Tempera and oil on wood, approx. 6' x 5'. |
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| HUGO VAN DER GOES, the Portinari Altarpiece (open), ca. 1476. Oil on wood. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| HANS MEMLING, Altarpiece of the Virgin with Saints and Angels (or The Saint John Altarpiece), Hospitaal Sint Jan, Bruges, 1479. Oil on wood, approx. 67 3/4" x 67 3/4" (center panel), 67 3/4" x 31 1/8" (each wing). |
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| MASTER OF FLÉMALLE, the Mérode Altarpiece (open), ca. 1425-1428. Tempera and oil on wood, center panel approx. 25" x 25". Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Cloisters Collection purchase). |
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| JAN VAN EYCK, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434. Tempera and oil on wood, approx. 32" x 23 1/2". Reproduced by courtesy of the trustees of the National Gallery, London. |
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| Detail of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434 |
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| PETRUS CHRISTUS, Legend of Saint Eligius, 1449. Tempera and oil on wood, approx. 39" x 34". Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (the Lehman Collection). |
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| JAN VAN EYCK, Man in a Red Turban, 1433. Tempera and oil on wood, approx. 10 1/4" x 7 1/2". Reproduced by courtesy of the trustees of the National Gallery, London. |
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| ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1460. Oil on wood, 141/2" x 103/4". National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (Andrew W. Mellon Collection). |
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| HIERONYMUS BOSCH, triptych of the Garden of Earthly Delights. Creation of Eve (left wing), Garden of Earthly Delights (central panel), Hell (right wing), 1505-1510. Oil on wood, center panel 86 5/8" x 76 3/4". Museo del Prado, Madrid. |
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| JEAN FOUQUET, Étienne Chevalier and Saint Stephen (from a diptych now divided), ca. 1450. Tempera on wood, 36 1/2" x 33 1/2". Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin-Dahlem |
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| The Avignon Pietà, attributed to ENGUERRAND QUARTON (CHARONTON), ca. 1455. Tempera on wood, approx. 5' 4" x 7' 2". Louvre, Paris. |
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| STEPHAN LOCHNER, Madonna in the Rose Garden, ca. 1430-1435. Tempera on wood, approx. 20" x 16". Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne |
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| MARTIN SCHONGAUER, Madonna and Child in a Rose Arbor, Saint Martin church, Colmar, 1473. Panel, 78 3/4" x 45 1/4". |
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| KONRAD WITZ, the Miraculous Draught of Fish, from the Altarpiece of Saint Peter, 1444. Tempera on wood, approx. 51" x 61". Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva |
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| VEIT STOSS, triptych of The Death and Assumption of the Virgin (wings open), from the altar of the Virgin Mary, Saint Mary church, Kraków, Poland, 1477–1489. Painted and gilded wood, 43' x 35' |
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| TILMAN RIEMENSCHNEIDER, The Assumption of the Virgin, center panel of the Creglingen Altarpiece, parish church, Creglingen, Germany, ca. 1495–1499. Carved lindenwood, 6' 1" wide |
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| MICHEL WOLGEMUT AND SHOP, "Tarvisium," page from the so-called Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. Printed by Anton Koberger |
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| MARTIN SCHONGAUER, Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons, ca. 1480–1490. Engraving, approx. 13" x 11". Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Rogers Fund, 1920). |
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| GIL DE SILOÉ, Christ Crucified, center detail of painted and gilded wooden altarpiece, Carthusian monastery, Miraflores, Spain, 1496–1499. |
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