The Fall of Man and the Lamentation

Artwork: The Fall of Man and Lamentation

Artist: Hugo van der Goes

Created: ca. 1468-1470

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 33.8 x 23 cm

Genre: Christian art

Periods: Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting

Location: The Kunsthistorisches Museum of Art History, Vienna, Austria

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“Fall and the Redemption of Man, death and life, a paradise flooded with light and a dark overcast horizon, find their formal counterpart in this stylistic and compositional realisation of the theme. The delicate and sharply contoured bodies of the first two human beings are quite different from the figures in the Lamentation, which are interpreted in a painterly fashion and set restlessly into the scene in a continuation of the tradition of Rogier van der Weyden’s expressive painting. This has led to the supposition that the two panels were painted at different points in time, rather far apart from one another. Goes, in his striking rendition of the “tempter” with the head of a woman, body of a salamander and feet of an aquatic bird, was falling back on an existing tradition that was occasionally found in Netherlandish (book) paintings.” (text: Art and Culture; photography from Wikipedia)

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