Joos van Cleve and a collaborator,   The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor

 oil on panel, ca 1520, 98.4x74.3cm, 101x32.7cm(wing) painted surfaces Metropolitan Museum NY

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これがメトロポリタン美術館のキリスト磔刑の三連祭壇です。中央パネルには聖母マリアと聖ヨハネに加え、この絵の献呈者とその守護聖人聖パウロとともにひざまずいて描かれています。左パネルには洗礼者ヨハネ、聖カタリナ、右側パネルには、パドアの聖アントニオ、トレンチノの聖ニコラスが描かれ、右パネルの二人はイタリア関係の聖人であるので、この絵はイタリアからの注文によると考えられています。

 

 

In this splendid triptych the talents of a landscape specialist have been combined with those of the figurative painter Joos van Cleve. The setting for the Crucifixion, witnessed by the Virgin, Saint John and the donor with his patron Saint Paul, is a vast landscape whose style is indebted to Joachim Patinir (represented in the adjacent gallery). The panoramic vista unifies the interior. On the left wing are Saints John the Baptist and Catherine, on the right Anthony of Padua(Another key pattern has him meditating on an open book in which the Christ Child himself appears) and Nicholas of Tolentino. The latter two suggest that the altarpiece was an Italian commission.