#1430s

ab. 1436 Paolo Uccello - Adoration of the Child with saints Hieronymus, Magdalena and Julian

Title: Portrait of a Woman Artist: Robert Campin, called the Master of Flémalle (Southern Netherlandish [born France], ca. 1375-1444) Date: ca. 1435 Genre: portraiture Movement: Northern Renaissance Medium: oil and egg tempera on panel Dimensions: 40 cm (15.7 in) high x 27 cm (10.6 in) wide Location: National Gallery, London, England, UK

This painting is one of a pair, together with Portrait of a Man, which hangs alongside it in the National Gallery. it is uncertain whether Campin painted them as separate companion pieces or (as is perhaps more likely) as wings of a diptych. The identity of the sitters is unknown: they have been variously interpreted as Flemish painter Quentin Matsys and his wife or as Rogier van der Weyden and his wife. The woman depicted here wears an elaborate arrangement of linen veils and is shown against a tightly fitted black background, giving her an appearance of three-dimensionality.

A Panel of Hexagonal and Square Floor Tiles, Spanish, 1420-50

The Adoration of the Lamb of God panel and detail from the Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck.

Click the images above for detail or visit this site, which allows the restored sections of the altarpiece to be seen at extreme magnification via macrophotography.