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In Liège, early seventeenth-century painting was strongly influenced by Roman Early Baroque. The most important master was Gérard Douffet. After returning from Rome in 1624, he executed monumental altarpieces and other religious images which combined a dramatic power of expression, Caravaggist in origin, achieved by effective chiaroscuro and a poignant representation of emotion taken from life. His style is well illustrated by his masterpiece, Pope Nicholas V Visiting the Tomb of St Francis of Assisi.
Douffet's work after the late 1630s did not have the same penetrating effectiveness.
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