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MASTER of Flémalle: The Werl Altarpiece (right wing)

🖼 The Werl Altarpiece (right wing), 1438
Oil on panel
101 × 47 cm
Madrid, Spain

Jeweled light floods a domestic interior where a donor kneels before the Virgin, rendered with meticulous detail and oil glazes. This revolutionary work merges sacred narrative with bourgeois realism, establishing the Flemish altarpiece as a vehicle for both devotion and social status.

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