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MEMLING, Hans: St John Altarpiece (central panel)

🖼 St John Altarpiece (central panel), 1474-79
Oil on oak panel
173.6 × 173.7 cm
Bruges, Belgium

Golden light bathes the kneeling saint as intricate Flemish detail renders fabric, landscape, and divine vision with jewel-like precision. Memling's devotional masterpiece exemplifies 15th-century Northern Renaissance spirituality, blending mystical experience with meticulous observation of the material world.

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E. H. Gombrich
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