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MEMLING, Hans: The Donne Triptych (centre panel)

🖼 The Donne Triptych (centre panel), c. 1475
Oil on oak
70.5 × 30.5 cm
London, United Kingdom

Jewel-toned robes and luminous skin tones dominate this centered Virgin and Child, rendered with meticulous Flemish detail and gold leaf accents. Commissioned by an English merchant, this triptych center panel epitomizes 15th-century devotional art, blending Italian Renaissance ideals with Northern European precision.

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E. H. Gombrich
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