Home/ Artists / Northern Renaissance / Petrus Christus/ St. Eligius as a goldsmith showing a ring to the engaged couple

St. Eligius as a goldsmith showing a ring to the engaged couple

Petrus Christus

Public domain

last edit: 29 Mar, 2012 by xennex

max resolution: 1000x1158px

View all sizes

St. Eligius as a goldsmith showing a ring to the engaged couple

Petrus Christus

~~Date:~~ 1449
~~Style:~~ Northern Renaissance
~~Genre:~~ religious painting
~~Media:~~ oil, panel
~~Location:~~ Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US
~~Dimensions:~~ 85 x 99 cm
Order Oil Painting
reproduction
~~Share:~~

Wikipedia article References ...

Wikipedia article

References

A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius is a 1449 painting by Petrus Christus, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The main figure in the painting was long thought to be Saint Eligius, the patron saint of goldsmiths, due to the presence of a halo. In 1993 the halo was recognized as a later addition and removed. The Ducht art histocian Hugo van der Velden thinks the main figure may be the famous goldsmith Willem van Vleuten, who by then lived in Bruges.

This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). The full text of the article is here →

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Goldsmith_in_His_Shop,_Possibly_Saint_Eligius

More ...

~~Wikipedia:~~ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Goldsmith_in_His_Shop,_Possibly_Saint_Eligius

~~Petrus Christus | A Goldsmith in his Shop | The Met:~~ www.metmuseum.org

Tags: