Our Lady Of Sorrows — Quinten Massijs

Our Lady of Sorrows


Quinten Massijs (1466 - 1530)

¡Descubre a Quinten Massys (c. 1466-1530), fundador de la Escuela de Amberes! Explora sus pinturas religiosas, obras satíricas y técnicas innovadoras al óleo. Un artista clave del Renacimiento flamenco.

Museo Nacional de Arte Antigua (Lisboa, Portugal)

¡Descubre el patrimonio artístico de Portugal en el Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga! Explora obras maestras de Bosch y Rafael en un opulento palacio de Lisboa: un viaje por la historia del arte europeo.

Large central panel of an altarpiece made, by the most qualified Antwerp paintingworkshop, for the then newly founded church of the Madre de Deus Monastery inLisbon (1509). The seven other smaller paintings that surround the central paintingrepresent tragic episodes from the life and passion of Christ witnessed by Mary,thus referred to as His “seven pains”. The monumental figure of the Virgin in bluewould focus the eye of the believer on the altarpiece.