Иконостас монфортский {1394}
Monforte Altarpiece
- история:
- It is the most brilliant work from the early period of van der Goes. It is named after the town in which it was housed.
- It is a large-scale triptych, of which only the central panel, a long horizontal rectangle, has survived to the present day.
- A group of hovering angels have been amputated from the top of the panel, and the two wings have disappeared.
- автор:
- Гус Х. ван дер
- Hugo van der Goes
- место:
- Монфорте: колледж испанских иезуитов ( - )
- Monforte: college belonging to a group of Spanish Jesuits or Monforte de Lemos cloister
Берлин: Гос. музеи
- Berlin: Staatliche Museen
- композиция:
- Поклонение волхвов, центр
- Adoration of the Magi
- композиция:
- The Three Kings and their followers come upon the Virgin, the Holy Infant and Joseph amid the ruins of a palace. A group of villagers observe this extraordinary scene through a gap in the wall.
- The figures, both actors and witnesses, are all shown on the same scale, whether humble or magnificent. They are neither reticent nor exalted, but react to the event in their various ways, surprised or self-conscious.
- In the background we can see a few women, some cottages and a river besides which the Kings' horses are waiting. In the foreground, symbolic flowers - the lily and columbine - and a pottery vessel are depicted with great care.
- A tiny squirrel is running along one of the beams above the opening through which the villagers observe the scene. Van der Goes has given free rein to his imagination, both in the composition and in his handling of paint, deploying the splendidly rich col
- A group of villagers observe this extraordinary scene through a gap in the wall. The figures, both actors and witnesses, are all shown on the same scale, whether humble or magnificent.
- They are neither reticent nor exalted, but react to the event in their various ways, surprised or self-conscious.
- A tiny squirrel is running along one of the beams above the opening through which the villagers observe the scene.
- предмет с изображением:
- оформление:
- ~1470.
- Triptych. Oil on wood.
- 2470х1500.
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