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Provençal Painter
Christ as Salvator Mundi and the Virgin Mary (150 x 205 mm.)
Southern France, Avignon, Aix or Marseille?, c. 1480-90 |
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From a Book of Hours, this extraordinary pair of miniatures, depicting Christ as Salvator Mundi on the left and the Virgin Mary on the right, resembles a small-scale devotional diptych. The image of the Virgin is virtually identical to that in the Paris Hours of René d’Anjou (BnF, MS lat. 17332 cf. f. 15v), which must copy a devotional painting for which King René had a special veneration. Variants of the image also occur in manuscript illuminations by George Trubert, working in Provence. |
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