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Van Eyck
Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele
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| Joseph Denis Odevaere Lord Byron on His Death Bed |
Judgement paintings hung in courtrooms in medieval times - I didn't know that. This one isn't for the squeamish: The Judgement of Cambyses by Gerard David. Cambyses is being flayed alive. What a truly horrible form of torture.
Flemish primitives i.e. detailed realism in the depiction of materials....
