Virgin and Child - Styles and Influences
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Virgin and Child in an Apse and Two Angels
ca. 1510-1515
Follower of Robert Campin
The architectural elements suggest one space of the same church continuing through all three parts of the triptych, which probably served as a devotional painting on a home altar. The subject of the painting appeared in numerous and varied versions in Flemish art down to 1520, as a single picture more often than as a triptych. It is supposed that it's prototype was the lost painting by Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle), one of the founders of 15th c. Flemish art. This triptych belongs to a specific current of Flemish painting (1490-1520) in which artists strove to revive old Flemish art of the 1st half of the 15th c. The peak of this archaic revival was reached around 1510.