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Description: A diptych with (a) dissimilar decoration on the reverses; (b) correctly positioned;...

TitleA diptych with (a) dissimilar decoration on the reverses; (b) correctly positioned; and (c, d) ready for opening. "Christ carrying the Cross" (reverse, imitation porphyry) and "Portrait of a Fifty-four-year-old Franciscan" (reverse, skull).

Creator nameProvoost, Jan

Creator nationality/cultureNetherlandish

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1522

Object typePainting

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationHospitaalmuseum Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges, Belgium

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsPanel painting, Northern EuropeanArt, MedievalChristian art and symbolismDiptychs

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Diptychs with Instructions for Use

Hélène Verougstraete

Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych

FEW NETHERLANDISH DIPTYCHS dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been preserved intact in their original configuration including their frames, and only some of them have been treated in publications. Among the rare examples of diptychs conserved in their original frames, some are small, and it is relatively easy to see that they...

Author

Hélène Verougstraete

PublisherHarvard Art Museums

Related print edition pages: pp.157-169

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.014

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18139&redirecttoanchor=32487

Chapter subject tags:Christian art and symbolismDiptychsPanel painting, Netherlandish--15th centuryPerspective (Art)Devotional objects

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