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Rogier van der Weyden 1399/1400 – 1464

The Seven Sacraments - detail

oil on panel — 1440-1445

Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Rogier van der Weyden biography

 

Artist: Rogier van der Weyden

Rogier van der Weyden 1399/1400 - 1464 South-Netherlandish painter, chronologically halfway up the list of mediaeval West-European innovators, ranking between Jan van Eyck and Hugo van der Goes, known as the Flemish primitives. Rogier van der Weyden was bo

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Detail of Rogier van der Weyden's Seven Sacraments. John the Evangelist supports the fainting Mary. Two other women mourn at the foot of the cross.

 

Note the tears in John's and Mary's faces.

 

Van der Weyden tried to use the panel frames as portals in the composition. The woman to the left is in two panels.