PROVOST, Jan
(b. ca. 1465, Mons, d. 1529, Bruges)

Crucifixion

c. 1500
Oil on oak panel, 121 x 62 cm
Groeninge Museum, Bruges

The narrow painting of the Crucifixion was probably done no later than around 1500. The style remains very sedate and the broad folds of the drapery and saturation of the colours still owe a great deal to the Flemish Primitives.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 22 minutes):
Guillaume Dufay: Hymns