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GOES, Hugo van der: Monforte Altarpiece

🖼 Monforte Altarpiece, c. 1470
Oil on wood
150 × 247 cm
Berlin, Germany

Jewel-toned robes and tender gestures frame the Virgin and Child in radiant gold leaf, rendered with meticulous Flemish detail. Van der Goes's psychological intensity and luminous palette established him as a master of 15th-century Northern European devotional art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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