The Monforte Altarpiece
by Hugo van der GOES

The most brilliant work from the early period of van der Goes is the Monforte Altarpiece, named after the town in which it was housed, in a college belonging to a group of Spanish Jesuits, before being subsequently transferred to the Berlin museum. It is a large-scale triptych, of which only the central panel, a long horizontal rectangle, has survived to the present day. The theme of the surviving picture is the adoration of the Magi.

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Monforte Altarpiece
c. 1470
Oil on wood, 150 x 247 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece
c. 1470
Oil on wood, 150 x 247 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece
c. 1470
Oil on wood, 150 x 247 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1470
Oil on wood
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1470
Oil on wood
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1470
Oil on wood
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1470
Oil on wood
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1470
Oil on wood
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1470
Oil on wood
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1470
Oil on wood
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1470
Oil on wood
Staatliche Museen, Berlin


Monforte Altarpiece (detail)
c. 1470
Oil on wood
Staatliche Museen, Berlin



Summary of paintings by Hugo van der Goes
Calvary Triptych | Death of the Virgin | Monforte Altarpiece | Portinari Triptych | Various



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