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Bladelin Altarpiece
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Left: vision of Augustus -
Centre: birth of Jesus -
Right: arrival of the Magi -
Outside faces of the side panels: the Annunciation
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The Bladelin Altarpiece, or Middelburg Altarpiece, is a triptych painting created around 1450 by the Early Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden, towards the end of his artistic career. It depicts scenes relating to the birth of Jesus; and as the only nativity scene definitively attributed to van der Weyden is sometimes known as the Nativity Triptych (although the Saint Columba Altarpiece shows the Adoration of the Magi).[1]
The triptych was donated to the new church of Middelburg in 1460, possibly by the town's founder Pieter Bladelin. It has been in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, since 1834.[2]
- ^ Neilsen Blum, Shirley (1969). Early Netherlandish Triptychs: A Study in Patronage. California: University of California Press. pp. 17–27.
- ^ "Middelburger-Altar / Bladelin-Altar". Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
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