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GOSSART, Jan: The Malvagna Altarpiece (centre panel, detail)

🖼 The Malvagna Altarpiece (centre panel, detail), 1513-15
Oil on panel
Palermo, Italy

Luminous figures emerge from rich gold leaf and intricate detail, their forms rendered with Flemish precision and jewel-like color. Gossart's virtuosic technique and Northern Renaissance spirituality established him as a master bridge between Flemish and Italian Renaissance traditions.

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