MASTER of the Legend of Saint Ursula (I)
(active 1480-1500 in Bruges)

Legend of St Ursula (closed)

1475-82
Oil on oak panel, 47,5 x 30 cm (each scene), 59 x 18,5 cm (Annunciation)
Groeninge Museum, Bruges

When closed the panels show grisailles with the four evangelists, John (chalice and eagle), Matthew (pen and angel), Luke (paintbrush, portrait of the Virgin, ox), Mark (pen, book and lion) and the four Doctors of the Church: Jerome (as cardinal, with book and lion), Gregory (cope, tiara, book), Augustine (cope, mitre, stag), Ambrose (cope, mitre, book). When closed the panels of Synagogue and Church show the Annunciation in grisaille. An Annunciation similar even in the details was made by the same painter on the exterior of a triptych with Virgin Enthroned (Dresden).