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Jan Van Eyck, Rolin Madonna

 

 

 

 

 
 

Princenhof, Bruges, Engraving from A. Sanderus, Flandria Illustrata, 1644 edn.

Discussed in the Introduction to Burgundy.

Plan of the Louvre

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr. 331: Histoire de la conquete de la Toison d'Or or Histoire de Jason

 

 
 
 
 
Van Eyck's representation of the Virgin in the Rolin Madonna is based on a tradition of images known as the Throne of Wisdom or Sedes Sapientiae, in which the Christ Child sits very formally in the lap of His mother. The image on the left is from Chartres Cathedral. It exemplifies a twelfth century version of the image.

 

 

Yolande de Soissons in Prayer, from the Psalter and Hours of Yolande de Soissons, late 13th c.

 

Jean de Berry in Prayer before the Virgin, from the Petites Heures, late 14th c.

 

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