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Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele by Jan van Eyck

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Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele

The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele is a large oil on oak panel painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. The panel was commissioned as an epitaph for Joris van der Paele, a wealthy clergyman from Bruges. It is one of the earliest known Northern Sacra conversazione. It shows the Virgin Mary with the child Jesus on her lap,[2] seated on an elevated throne decorated with carved representations of Adam and Eve, prefigurations of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, and figures from Old Testament scenes.[3] Mary is positioned at the center of a tight semicircular and sacred interior space, seemingly modelled on and representing a church interior. Saint Donatian of Reims, patron saint of Bruges' collegiate church, stands to the left, with Saint George (van der Paele's name saint) dressed in the pomp of a medieval knight's armour, to the right. Both are identified in the Latin inscriptions on the lower border of the imitation bronze frame. George is shown lifting his helmet in respect and presenting the elderly Canon to Mary. Van der Paele is dressed in white surplice and is shown piously reading from a book of hours.[4]

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