Hulin de Loo, Georges: Early Flemish paintings in the Renders Collection at Bruges: exhibited at the Belgian Exhibition, Burlington House, January 1927 (London, 1927)

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3838 BENEDICTINE « CHRIST DE P I T I E » 38
38 Oa\ panel : 45 centimeters high by 30,5 centimeters wide. 38

ALTHOUGH very different from the Cologne « Christ de
Pitie » which we have previously examined, this picture
however marks a step, very similar to that indicated
by Meister Wilhelm’s work for the art produced on the
& We are in the Low Countries at a moment when a
certain individuality in the art of panel painting is coming into
being : the more or less universal traditions of the 14th.
century are breaking up and special characteristics are coming
£ The duality formed by the survivals of a dying period
and by the new tendencies of a dawning age reappear in our
Christ and is one of its peculiarities. The gold background,
the rays, the stars, the whole unreal aspect distinctly belongs
to the age of those painters who worked for the Duke of
Berry and recalls the last years of the 14th. century. The
donor, painted in profile, tiny in comparison to the great
siz,e of a holy figure is seen during the whole of the
Italian 14th. century, especially in a Madonna by Vitale