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MEMLING, Hans: Triptych of Adriaan Reins

🖼 Triptych of Adriaan Reins, 1480
Oil on oak panel (central panel) (each wing)
43.8 × 35.8 cm
Bruges, Belgium

Golden light bathes three panels depicting Saint John, the Virgin and Child, and Saint John the Baptist in meticulous oil detail. Commissioned by merchant Adriaan Reins, this Flemish masterpiece exemplifies 15th-century Northern devotional art's intimate spirituality and patronage traditions.

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