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WEYDEN, Rogier van der: St John Altarpiece (left panel)

🖼 St John Altarpiece (left panel), 1455-60
Oil on oak panel
77 × 48 cm
Berlin, Germany

Jewel-toned robes and precise gold leaf frame two kneeling donors beside Saint John, rendered in luminous oil on panel. Van der Eyck's successor revolutionized Northern European altarpieces by merging divine and secular realms through intimate scale and psychological intensity.

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