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MEMLING, Hans: Portinari Triptych (right wing)

🖼 Portinari Triptych (right wing), 1487
Oil on wood
45 × 34 cm
Florence, Italy

Delicate brushwork renders two donor portraits in profile against a luminous landscape, their fashionable garments meticulously detailed. Memling's innovative format—positioning patrons alongside sacred narratives—established the Flemish triptych as a powerful devotional and social statement for wealthy merchant families.

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