The exhibition “Hugo van der Goes: Between Bliss and Pain” at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie gathers most of the artist’s surviving paintings and drawings for the first time since Hugo van der Goes’s death 540 years ago. This exhibit is an outstanding feat due to the rarity of surviving works, as well as their frequently large format….
The Triptych: A Masterpiece in Three Parts
In the Early Renaissance, a rich, spiritually minded merchant would often want to honor God for his good fortune. As a devout believer, he prayed at home and would commission a triptych, which was a small, three-paneled painting to be placed in a niche as his personal shrine. The panels, compact and mobile, were often…
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