Frame of Triptych with Scenes from the Life of Christ and Mary
Ca. 1440. Gilded, Polychromed, Carved, Mortise-and-tenon joint.Room 058
This triptych was painted on a panel of Baltic oak, a wood typical of Netherlandish paintings and therefore of their frames. The boards are inserted into a grooved frame decorated with fictive dark stones on a gilt background. The particular iconography of the triptych suggests that it was specially commissioned, a view borne out by the five escutcheons on the lower mouldings, which may be linked to Eximén Pérez de Corella.
