The decorative arts ecclesiastical and civil of the Middle Ages (1851)
Shaw, Henry, 1800-1873 · London, William Pickering · leaf 49
Urfula, on a chafTe, or the other admirableworks ftill preferved there, executed by Memling, while a brother ofthat charitable foundation. The ftill more celebrated pictures of thecrucifixion, and the defcent from the crofs, by Rubens, in AntwerpCathedral, are painted on Triptychs. Every Triptych… … to the centre, or as was very frequent, portraits of the perfons for whomthey were painted reprefented kneeling (the hufband ufually on the rightfide and the wife on the left), and attended by their patron faints. Third,the outer fides of the doors, which were painted either with two imagesof…
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