Madonna in the Church - 1430s

Madonna in the Church - 1430s
Staatliche Museen, Berlin-Dahlem

The asymmetric composition in this painting is unusual for Jan Van Eyck, but has been explained due to the fact that this panel was the left wing of a diptych. The other wing has been lost long ago, but contemporary copies still exist which prove the correctness of this assumption.


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