Giorgione has always been considered one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, and one whose influence on following generations of painters was considerable. For all his fame, very little is known about his short life (he may have died during a plague epidemic in 1510 at age 32 or 33), and only a few paintings can be definitively attributed to him.
Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Six in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art,
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The Nativity , one of Petrus Christus‘ most important devotional paintings, emphasizes the sacrificial nature of Christ’s coming and shows the scene as part of a chain of events in the story of the Fall and Redemption of humankind. In the foreground, a sculpted archway displays scenes of the Fall as described in Genesis.
Flemish Painting in the National Gallery of Art (Booklet no. 5 in Ten Schools of Painting in the National
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This unusually large panel painting depicts three facets of Marian iconography: the Virgin’s corporeal assumption, the Immaculate Conception—the crescent moon and the radiance behind her identify Mary as the Woman of the Apocalyse, mentioned in Revelation 12:I—and the Coronation of the Virgin.
Flemish Painting in the National Gallery of Art (Booklet no. 5 in Ten Schools of Painting in the National
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A play and a painting appear to have merged in Jan van Eyck’s dramatic Annunciation , which is rich with Christian symbolism. The rainbow-winged archangel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary that God has chosen her to bear his son.
Flemish Painting in the National Gallery of Art (Booklet no. 5 in Ten Schools of Painting in the National
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