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MEMLING, Hans: Diptych of Maarten Nieuwenhove (right panel)

🖼 Diptych of Maarten Nieuwenhove (right panel), 1487
Oil on oak panel
52 × 41.5 cm
Bruges, Belgium

Soft light illuminates a young merchant in prayer, his hands clasped before an open book, rendered with meticulous detail against a distant landscape. This intimate devotional portrait exemplifies Flemish precision and the rising merchant class's piety during the Northern Renaissance.

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