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Diptychs and Supplicants: Precedents and Contexts of Fifteenth-Century Devotional Diptychs
Victor M. Schmidt
Description: Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych
Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych
IN THIS CONTRIBUTION, I intend to survey the main characteristics of diptychs in European panel painting before 1400 and to discuss some functions of portraits of supplicants in various media. My aim is to provide some context for the devotional diptychs in early Netherlandish and...
Author
Victor M. Schmidt
PublisherHarvard Art Museums
Copyright© 2006 by President and Fellows of Harvard College
Related print edition pages: pp.15-25
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00045.005
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18130
Chapter subject tags:Panel painting, NetherlandishDiptychsReligious artDevotional objectsWilton diptychArt patronageFouquet, Jean, approximately 1420-approximately 1480

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