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Date : approx. between 1470 and 1475
Material : Oil painting on wood
Acquisition : (1986)
| Sorrowing Virgin
Item 1 on 18
European Painting
Painting
Area related
Flandres
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During the period of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the great Netherlandish painters worked with traditional forms to create more human and emotional images for personal religious devotion. Against a heavenly gold background, Bouts paired the image of the mourning Virgin with a frontal image of Christ crowned with thorns to form a diptych. In these paired images, the Virgin was both an embodiment of compassion and an intercessor for humankind with Christ. The many copies of Bouts's diptych indicate that it captured the religious imagination of his age. The image of Christ from this diptych pair is lost.
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