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English: Wilton Diptych: Virgin and Child with Angels   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL))
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Unknown Master, French (second half of 14th century)
Title
English: Wilton Diptych: Virgin and Child with Angels
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
English: The Wilton Diptych (c.1395-1399) is a portable altarpiece taking the——form of a diptych. It was painted for King Richard II.
Date 1395
date QS:P571,+1395-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium tempera on oak wood
Dimensions height: 36.8 cm (14.4 in); width: 26.7 cm (10.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,36.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,26.7U174728
Collection
National Gallery   wikidata:Q180788
National Gallery
Native name National Gallery
Parent institution Board of Trustees of the National Gallery Edit this at Wikidata
Location
Coordinates 51° 30′ 32″ N, 0° 07′ 42″ W Link——to OpenStreetMap Link to Google Maps Edit this at Wikidata
Established 1824 Edit this at Wikidata
Website nationalgallery.org.uk
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institution QS:P195,Q180788
Source/Photographer Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork

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The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–1399), painted for King Richard II in England by a French/English artist (right side of the diptych)

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JPEG file commentUNKNOWN MASTER, French

(second half of 14th century)

Wilton Diptych: Virgin and Child with Angels 1395 Tempera on oak panel, 36,8 x 26,7 cm National Gallery, London

This is the right panel of the Wilton Diptych (named after the house in which it was preserved), the finest work in England in the International Gothic style. Although it is a painting of extraordinary beauty and must be from the hand of an artist of the highest rank, critics disagree as to whether he was English, French or Italian.

St Edmund, king and martyr, St Edward the Confessor and St John the Baptist present the kneeling monarch Richard II of England in the left panel to the azure assembly of the Virgin and Child, attended by angels, on the right panel. The left scene is set in an earthly forest, the right in the flowering garden of heaven.

The artist, who was probably one of the king's painters, has lavished more care on the delineation of the personal emblems and insignia of the king than on his actual personality. There was no need for the latter, since this donor image was meant for the eyes of the donor himself. The monarch wears around his neck the white hart badge which Richard adopted in 1390 as his personal insignia. It reappears on the reverse of the left panel. Both it and the French insignia of broom-cods (seed-pods) are woven into the king's iridescent gold mantle. The white hart badge is also worn by each of the eleven angels, who thus become royal retainers. One of them holds the banner of St George. The event commemorated here has been conjectured as Richard's coronation in 1377, his seeking divine sanction for a crusade in the mid-1990s, or his meeting with the French king in 1396.

But need it refer to a specific historical moment? Surely it is an outstanding example of a private image, a portable diptych that would follow the king on his travels. Every time he knelt before it he would be transported among the timeless company of Christ, the Virgin Mary. And the angels.




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Author: UNKNOWN MASTER, French Title: Wilton Diptych: Virgin and Child with Angels Time-line: 1351-1400 School: French Form: painting

Type: religious

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