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BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece (closed)

🖼 Three Kings Altarpiece (closed), 1507
Linden panel (each wing)
121 × 28 cm
Berlin, Germany

Shadowed figures in rich oils depict the Three Kings in Gothic verticality, their crowns and robes rendered with meticulous detail. Baldung Grien's closed altarpiece wings showcase Northern Renaissance mastery and theological complexity central to early 16th-century German devotional art.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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