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Description: | This is the surviving left half of a diptych. The right panel would have contained a representation of the Virgin and Child. Nicholas Gaze was a supply officer to the armies of Philip of Burgundy. Appropriately, St Nicholas, the patron saint of bakers, holds a baker's peel with three rolls instead of his usual emblem of three golden balls, symbolic of the dowry he gave to the three daughters of a poor man to stop them being sold into prostitution. Nicolas Gaze's son holds a crucifix and is shown on a smaller scale indicating that he had died in childhood. In the background is a delicately painted landscape with geese flying across an evening sky. Small figures follow a path uphill to a shrine with a cross. Nicolas Gaze wears an unusual device on his surcoat, threading a ragged cross of St Andrew through a flint of the Order of the Golden Fleece under a ducal crown of Burgundy. | Subjects: | portrait (Gaze Nicolas); religion (St Nicholas of Bari) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Flemish School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Master of 1518 (early Netherlandish painter, 16th c.) Previously attributed to Provost, Jan, the younger (early Netherlandish painter, ca.1465-1529) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9173... | Go to resource |
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