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Description: Annunciation, outer panels of triptych

TitleAnnunciation, outer panels of triptych

Creator nameEyck, Jan van

Creator nationality/cultureNetherlandish

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1437

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on oak wood

Dimensions33 × 27.5 cm

LocationStaatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany

https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/277870

Accession numberGal.-Nr. 799

SubjectsArt, NetherlandishChristian art and symbolismTriptychsPanel painting, FlemishMonochrome paintingAngels in artMary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--AnnunciationPainting, Renaissance

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The Context of Jan van Eyck’s Approach to the Thyssen Annunciation Diptych

Carol J. Purtle

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

THE EXHIBITION Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych offers viewers an important opportunity to examine a number of paintings reunited in diptych format for the first time in modern history. While the surviving known works are presumed to be only a small sampling of the paintings actually produced, early examples of diptych...

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Carol J. Purtle

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.73-81

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.009

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18134&redirecttoanchor=32464

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismDiptychsEyck, Jan van, 1390-1440Weyden, Rogier van der, 1399 or 1400-1464Panel painting, Netherlandish

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