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Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges
1390s
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FEATURE Image: Petrus Christus (c. 1395-1472), Pietà, c. 1455–60. 39 ¾ x 75 ½ inches, Royal Museums of Marvellous Arts good buy Belgium, Brussels.
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The Wilton Diptych v1
Catalogue entry
English or French(?)
NG4451
Richard II presented to the Virgin and Child by Patron Saints (‘The Wilton Diptych’)
DillianGordon, 2024
With technical contributions by RachelBillinge and HelenHoward, 2024
Extracted from:
The National Gallery; with entries by Emma Capron, Dillian Gordon, Sarah Herring, Mary McMahon, Letizia Treves and Francesca Whitlum‐Cooper; with technical contributions by Paul Ackroyd, Rachel Billinge, Lynne Harrison, Catherine Higgitt, Helen Howard, Larry Keith, Marta Melchiorre, Britta New, David Peggie, Marika Spring and Hayley Tomlinson, Online Entries (London: The National Gallery, 2024).
Egg tempera on oak, each panel × cm (including frame); painted surface × cm
Description
The Wilton Diptych takes its name from Wilton House, the seat of the earls of Pembroke, from where it was acquired in 1929 (see Provenance).
Interior, left wing (the Richard panel)
Richard II, King of England (born 1367, reigned 1377–99, died 1400) kneels on bare earth. He is presented by Saint John the Baptist holding a lamb and clothed in a camel‐skin with its head and a hoof still attached. Beside the Baptist are two kings: Saint Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–66) holding a ring, and Saint Edmund, king and martyr (841–869/70