Roger de le Pasture was born in about 1399 in Tournai, then one of the principal towns of France but an enclave in the territories of the dukes of Burgundy. He lived in Tournai and in Brussels, where his name was translated into Dutch as Rogier van der Weyden, and where he died on 18 June 1464.His most famous works, enormous panels of "Scenes of Justice" in the Town Hall of Brussels, were destroye