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DiaporamaSt. Theotonius (?) and Franciscan Saint
1400
115.0 x 89.0 cm
National Museum of Ancient Art
The typological similarity between these paintings, in whichthe saints are rather unusually presented sitting on a benchnext to a wall lined with green brocade with a similar pattern,leads one to believe that they belonged together to the sameseries, which might have been either an altarpiece or a successionof panels placed above the choir stalls. The austere modelof the figures and the stiff and profoundly marked folds of theirgarments are the main features linking them to the workshopof Nuno Gonçalves. The crucifix exhibited by the FranciscanSaint seems to derive directly from the famous Calvary paintedby Rogier van der Weyden, around 1460, for the Carthusianmonastery of Scheut, close to Brussels, which sheds some lighton the influences affecting the work of Nuno Gonçalves and onthe scarcely known about his artistic training.
nuno gonçalves (1420 – 1490)
Nuno Gonçalves (c. 1425-1491) was a Portuguese Renaissance painter, court artist to Afonso V. Best known for the Saint Vincent Panels – a masterpiece depicting 15th-century Portuguese society & considered the peak of antique Portuguese art.
National Museum of Ancient Art (Lisbon, Portugal)
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About this artwork
- Title: St. Theotonius (?) and Franciscan Saint
- Artist: nuno gonçalves
- Year: 1400
- Original dimensions: 115.0 x 89.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Where to see it: National Museum of Ancient Art
- Main color: Espresso
- Perceived brightness: deep_shadow
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