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MASTER of Flémalle: Portrait of a Man

🖼 Portrait of a Man, 1400-10
Wood
40.7 × 28 cm
London, United Kingdom

Piercing gaze and austere features emerge from shadow in oil, rendered with meticulous Flemish precision. This early 15th-century portrait revolutionized Northern European painting through psychological intensity and revolutionary three-dimensional modeling of form.

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