Rogier van der Weyden

1390–1464 · Burgundian Netherlands · Northern Renaissance

Rogier van der Weyden (1399 or 1400 – 18 June 1464), initially Roger de la Pasture (French:), was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. Wikipedia

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Intense emotion in sharp, angular folds of drapery, tearful faces and figures arranged like sculpture on a shallow stage.

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“The Descent from the Cross”, 1440s — Museo del Prado
“Portrait of a Lady”, 1460 — National Gallery of Art
“Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin” — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Columba Triptych”, 1453 — Collection Boisserée
“The Last Judgment (Beaune Altarpiece)”, 1443 — Hospices de Beaune
“The Magdalen Reading”, 1445 — National Gallery
“The Seven Sacraments”, 1453 — Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
“Portrait of a Young woman with a Winged Bonnet”, 1440 — Gemäldegalerie
“Lamentation of Christ”, 1450 — Uffizi Gallery
“Durán Madonna”, 1435 — Museo del Prado
“Medici Madonna”, 1460 — Städel Museum
“Pietà”, 1441 — Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
“Miraflores Altarpiece”, 1443 — Gemäldegalerie
“Bladelin Triptych”, 1445–1448 — Gemäldegalerie
“Braque Triptych”, 1452 — Louvre
“Annunciation Triptych”, 1434 — Galleria Sabauda
“St Jerome and the Lion”, 1450 — Detroit Institute of Arts
“Virgin and Child Enthroned”, 1430s — Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
“Portrait of Francesco d'Este”, 1460 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Portrait of Antoine, 'Grand Bâtard' of Burgundy”, 1460 — Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
“Crucifixion Triptych”, 1445 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“The Altar of St. John”, 1455 — Gemäldegalerie
“Visitation”, 1437 — Museum der bildenden Künste
“Virgin and Child”, 1461 — Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Madonna Standing”, 1430 — Kunsthistorisches Museum
“Crucifixion Diptych”, 1460 — Philadelphia Museum of Art
“Diptych of Philip de Croÿ with The Virgin and Child”, 1460 — The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
“Crucifixion of Scheut”, 1459 — Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
“Portrait of a Young Woman”, 1440 — British Museum
“Saint George and the Dragon”, 1435
“Portrait of Jean Gros”, 1462 — Art Institute of Chicago
“Portrait of Charles the Bold”, 1454 — Gemäldegalerie
“Annunciation”, 1435 — Louvre
“Bladelin Triptych Nativity (central panel)”, 1445 — Gemäldegalerie
“Portrait of a Man (Guillaume Fillastre?)”, 1430s — Courtauld Institute of Art
“Portrait of Philippe de Croy”, 1450 — Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
“Bust of Saint Joseph”, 1445 — Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
“Madonna with child, Revers: Emblem "Graces a Dieu"”, 1455 — Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tournai
“Lamentation of Christ”, 1460s — Mauritshuis
“Portrait of Jean Froimont. Verso: Saint Lawrence”, 1448 — Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

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