Miraflores altar
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| Miraflores altar |
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| Rogier van der Weyden , around 1450 |
| oil on wood |
| 71 × 129 cm |
| Gemäldegalerie Berlin |
The Miraflores altar , also known as the “Triptych of Our Lady” , is a triptych by Rogier van der Weyden . It was painted in oil on oak around 1450 . The individual panels are each 74 × 44.5 cm in size. The pictures are in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin . The triptych was donated by the Castilian King John II to the Charterhouse of Miraflores near Burgos .
There is a slightly smaller version of the altar. The panels are in Granada ( Capilla Real ) and New York ( Metropolitan Museum ). For a long time they were thought to be the original; the Berlin altar was considered a copy from later times. However, an investigation carried out at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie in 1981 revealed that the Berlin altar was the original. According to the results of the dendrochronology , the altar may have been painted around 1437. Investigations with the help of infrared reflectography also showed that there were sometimes considerable changes to the signature on the Berlin boards. So during the creative process the painter looked for various painterly solutions, which a copyist would hardly have done. The tablets in Granada and New York do not show these changes.
Motif
It shows three scenes from the life of Mary . On the left panel you can see the adoration of Jesus by Mary and Joseph , in the middle the lamentation after the crucifixion . On the right panel is the appearance of Jesus after the resurrection . While the first two scenes are based on the New Testament , the source for the representation of the apparition can be found in a text Meditationes de vita Christi by Pseudo-Bonaventure from the 13th or 14th century. In the painted architecture that frames each panel, further episodes from the life of Mary are depicted in the archivolts .
literature
- Antje Maria Neuner-Warthorst: The triptych in early old Dutch painting: visual language and expressiveness of a form of composition. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-631-49122-0 , pp. 95-106.
