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VAN EYCK [1376-1441]
Miracle dans la loggia: "La Vierge au chancelier Rolin" (circa 1436) Musée du Louvre, Paris The setting of a Roman gallery brings together four characters, Nicolas Rolin, the Duke of Burgundy's minister of finance, is on his knees before the Madonna, who is being crowned by an angel. Rolin is being blessed by the infant Jesus. Outside, a rich landscape is peopled with a number of unknown characters. A complex painting, difficult to decipher.
GRUNEWALD [1475-1528]
The Isenheim Altar, Mathias Grünewald, c.1512-1515 (Unterlinden Museum, Colmar) This work was originally a vast altarpiece whose four jointed panels enclosed statues of Saint Anthony and various other characters. It was probably opened on the Saint's feast-day to reveal the statues, and two scenes from his life depicted on the wing-panels. For the principal Church festivals, it could be opened in a different way to show the Annunciation, a Choir of Angels, a Nativity and a Resurrection. When closed, the altarpiece depicted a horrifying Crucifixion, framed by two smaller panels depicting Saint Sebastian and Saint Anthony. Each panel used specific forms of expression which have admired by millions down the centuries; but the Altar had a specific purpose: it was created for the chapel of a hospital, where Antonite monks cared for patients suffering from Saint Anthony's Fire or sacred fire (ergotism caused by eating rye bread with fungal infection), a degenerative disease accompanied by hallucinatory visions like those illustrated in the Temptation.
