The Ark of Grace
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know". John Keats

Main menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • A-Z
  • Chronology
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Mythology
  • Music
  • Film
  • People
  • Places
  • Quotations

The Magdalen Reading (before 1438)

Van der Weyden, Rogier (c.1399-1464)

The Magdalen Reading
before 1438
Oil on mahogany, transferred from another panel, 62.2 × 54.4 cm
National Gallery, London

Tags: 1438 altarpiece Art book drapery dress England figure finger Flemish floor grass hand headdress interior kneeling landscape light London Magdalene man medieval NG oil portrait pot reading room Saint scene seated shadow sleeve stick UK Van der Weyden water window woman young

Post navigation

← Femme assise dans un jardin (1891)
Madonna col Bambino e due angeli (c.1467-1469) →

Tags

Actor American arm Art beard child city cloud drapery dress England España figure Film finger flower foliage foot France grass hair hand hat Italia Jesus landscape light London moustache Netherlands NYC Paris portrait scene shadow signature sky Theatre tree TV UK USA Virgin Mary water woman
  • Home
  • A-Z
  • Chronology
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Mythology
  • Music
  • Film
  • People
  • Places
  • Quotations

Copyright © 2023 The Ark of Grace. All Rights Reserved. The Magazine Basic Theme by bavotasan.com.