| Died on 18 June 1464:
Rogier de la Pasture van der Weyden, Flemish Northern
Renaissance painter born in 1399 or 1400. — BIOGRAPHY Extensive coverage with commentaries and links to reproductions, in whole and in many details, of: — Deposition — Saint Luke Madonna — Annunciation Triptych — Miraflores Altarpiece — Seven Sacraments Altarpiece — Crucifixion Altarpiece — Bladelin Triptych — Last Judgment Polyptych — Braque Family Triptych — Saint Columba Altarpiece — Saint John Altarpiece (here) — Other altarpieces — Other Crucifixions — Portraits — Other paintings ^ == Saint John Altarpiece (1459) _ In the second half of the 1450s, not long after the execution of the Saint Columba Altarpiece, Rogier painted a smaller retable, probably intended for a side altar or a private chapel, the Saint John Altarpiece. It may be identical with an altarpiece by Rogier dedicated to John the Baptist and said to have been given to the church of Saint James, Bruges, by the merchant Battista Agnelli, a native of Pisa. The center of the retable shows John the Baptist baptizing Christ in the Jordan, with the naming of John to the left. In the scene of the beheading of John to the right, Salome is receiving the decapitated head after performing a seductive dance before her father - at her mother's instigation - to persuade him to order John's execution. The altarpiece, like the much older Miraflores Altarpiece, consists of three panels of the same size firmly mounted together in a frame. The work is not therefore a triptych, but an altarpiece that cannot be folded. — Saint John Altarpiece — left panel — central panel — right panel _ detail 1 _ detail 2 |
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ART “4” “2”-DAY 18 JUNE |
| DEATHS:
1865 WIERTZ —
1464 VAN DER WEYDEN BIOGRAPHY |
| BIRTH:
1621 EVERDINGEN |