Panels from the High Altar of the Charterhouse of Saint-Honoré, Thuison-les-Abbeville: Saint John the Baptist
French
1490–1500
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- Panel: 117 × 52 cm (46 1/16 × 20 1/2 in.); Framed: 137.2 × 69.8 cm (54 × 27 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- oil on panel
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
religionoil paintings (visual works)painting15th centuryfranceChicago World's FairsarchitecturearchitechtureCentury of Progressreligious figuresoil on panelsheepplant materialfrenchDevotionpanel paintingoil paint (paint)painting (image making)painting techniqueswood (plant material)Christian subjectsmanreligiousworld's fairsaltarorganic materialoil paintingpanel (wood)european paintingChristianitySaint John the Baptist
About
The Virgin and Child and Saint John the Baptist panels once served as exterior wings for an altarpiece at the Carthusian monastery in Thuison-les-Abbeville, France, formerly part of the Burgundian Netherlands. The figures of the Virgin Mary and Saint John the Baptist appear within shallow stone niches painted to look like the Gothic architecture of a church, with pointed arches and tracery. These enshrined images of Mary and John celebrated the monastery as the site of some of their relics (human remains or objects said to belong to the saints), which were often housed in architectural containers.
