Triptych: Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors
Artist
Master of Saint Anne
(Netherlandish, active 16th century)
Dateca. 1500-1530
Object number94.2025
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensionspart (center panel): 28 3/8 × 19 1/16 in. (72 × 48.4 cm)
part (side panels): 28 3/8 × 8 in. (72 × 20.3 cm)
part (side panels): 28 3/8 × 8 in. (72 × 20.3 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Collections
On View
Not on viewDescriptionAbout thirty years after it was painted, this late-fifteenth-century domestic triptych was modified for its new owners. Their portraits were then added to the lateral panels with their children and patron saints John the Baptist and Catherine. In the central panel the Virgin and Child are adored by St. Catherine, wearing a crown, and St. Barbara holding the palm branch. The new oil technique gave Northern European artists more vivid and transparent colors, which allowed them to paint a wider range of effects and details from nature such as the receding landscape, the strawberry plant on the foreground, and the bird on the roof.
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