UNKNOWN MASTER, Netherlandish
(active around 1500 in Delft or Gouda)

Four Canons with Sts Augustine and Jerome, with the Visitation

c. 1500
Oil on panel, 88 x 105 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

In the foreground, the canons are kneeling by an open grave with a skeleton inside. In the middleground are the Virgin and Elizabeth, seated on a bench in a garden. The background depicts a cloister-garth, with the church on the left and the refectory on the right. The garth is populated by angels.




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