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WEYDEN, Rogier van der: Miraflores Altarpiece (right panel)

🖼 Miraflores Altarpiece (right panel), c. 1440
Oil on oak panel
71 × 43 cm
Berlin, Germany

Soft light bathes the Virgin and Christ Child in an intimate domestic interior, rendered with jewel-like detail and translucent glazes characteristic of Flemish mastery. The panel's devotional intensity and revolutionary interior setting established new standards for Northern Renaissance altarpieces and private religious contemplation.

The story of art
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E. H. Gombrich
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