10 Religious Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder is remembered first as the great painter of peasants, of hunters in the snow and dancing…
Bruegel’s Tower of Babel: Two Survivors, One Lost
The Tower of Babel is the most famous painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, the leading Netherlandish painter of the…
Robert Campin’s Merode Altarpiece and Its Hidden Symbols
The Merode Altarpiece, also called the Annunciation Triptych, is one of the founding works of Early Netherlandish painting, made by…
Inside Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece
The Isenheim Altarpiece is the masterpiece of Matthias Grunewald, one of the most powerful and disturbing works of the Northern…
The Ghent Altarpiece: Art’s Most Stolen Masterpiece
The Ghent Altarpiece, also called the Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, is one of the founding works of European painting,…
Holbein’s Dead Christ: The Painting That Shook Dostoevsky
The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb is one of the most unsettling religious paintings ever made, created…
Bosch’s Temptation of Saint Anthony, Faith Against Nightmares
The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a small, strange and unforgettable panel by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch, painted…
Van Eyck’s Madonna of Chancellor Rolin and Its Secret Landscape
The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin is one of the most refined small paintings of the Northern Renaissance, made by Jan…
The Portinari Altarpiece: The Flemish Giant That Stunned Florence
The Portinari Altarpiece is the largest and most ambitious work by the Flemish master Hugo van der Goes, painted around…
Van der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross, Grief That Mirrors Mary
The Descent from the Cross is one of the most moving images of grief in all of Western art, painted…