Noël Bellemare
(Antwerp-Paris, active 1512-1546)
Third Temptation of Christ (c. 96 x 57 mm.)
France, Loire Valley?, c. 1545
This miniature illustrates the Third Temptation of Christ, when Christ dismisses Satan, who tumbles from the craggy cliff. The rich palette of the artist, the finely modeled figures (especially Christ), and the expansive and beautiful landscape are characteristic Noël Bellemare’s works at the end of his career. The miniature is exquisitely painted with a subtle balance of naturalistically modeled volumes and seemingly endless detail, especially in the sensitively delineated landscape. Blank on the verso, it was marginal scene in what must have been a magnificent manuscript.
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