Art historians agree on the greatness of early Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden, but they tend to disagree about what he actually painted. Of the 25-odd surviving works now generally ...

Rogier van der Weyden (1400-64) was an outstanding master of the new technique. As official painter to the city of Brussels, he achieved international fame and a considerable fortune.

In Van der Weyden’s “Saint Luke,” I love the way the infant Jesus’s feet and fingers are flexed as he smiles, as if in a euphoria of anticipation. Notice, too, the Virgin’s calm as she ...

Dutch museum will remove yellowed varnish from Van der Weyden's The Lamentation of Christ ...

An altarpiece loaded with symbols that point all the way back to Adam and look forward to the Resurrection. ... scholar Walter Friedländer characterized Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1400-1464/65) ...

By many estimates, as much as two-thirds of the oeuvre of the Old Masters—artists like Leonardo, Michelangelo and Titian—is considered lost. Many of those works are known through archival ...

Rogier Van der Weyden's Deposition, painted in 1436 when he was serving as official painter to the town of Brussels, is one of the most dramatic religious paintings ever executed.