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Description: | The most prominent figure, seated in the foreground of the centre panel, is the Virgin, and in keeping with medieval pictorial conventions she reappears several times in the background in episodes known collectively as the Seven Sorrows of Mary (the Presentation in the Temple, the Flight into Egypt, Christ and the Elders, the Carrying of the Cross, the Crucifixion, the Lamentation and the Entombment). The kneeling donor figures represented in the wings have been identified from the coats of arms hanging from the trees and decorating their clothes as Christopher Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe in Norfolk and his wife Catherine van Assche. In addition to the central biblical message, the work very visibly commemorates the piety and the privilege of its two donors, both of whom are accompanied by their name-saint. The size of the altarpiece suggests that it was intended either for the Knyvett's residence at Ashwellthorpe or, more probably, for the family chapel in the parish church. The reverse of the wings are painted in grisaille with the figures of St John the Evangelist and St Barbara. | Subjects: | St Barbara); portrait (Knyvett St Catherine St John the Evangelist The Seven Sorrows of Mary as donors); figure; landscape Catherine van St Christopher religion (Virgin Mary Christopher and Assche | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Master of the Legend of the Magdalen (early Netherlandish painter, act.ca.1483-ca.1530) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8535... | Go to resource |
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