Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Christ and the Virgin

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European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection

Christ and the Virgin

Cut down at the top

Made in Netherlands (historical name, 15th-16th century)

c. 1430-35

Robert Campin, also called the Master of Flémalle, Netherlandish (active Tournai), first documented 1406, died 1444

Oil and gold on panel
11 1/4 x 17 15/16 inches (28.6 x 45.6 cm)

* Gallery 219, European Art 1100-1500, second floor

Cat. 332

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

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Robert Campin based this image of Jesus on the Mandylion model; he was further inspired by the so-called Avignon Diptych, given by Pope Clement VI to the Duke of Normandy in the fourteenth century. Campin retained the diptych's composition and the gold background, which was common to Byzantine icons, but rendered Christ's head with the realism for which Netherlandish painters were renowned, working in microscopic detail and even showing individual hairs.

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