In Van der Weyden’s version (the best by anyone), Luke is drawing with a stylus, so he’s unencumbered by painting paraphernalia. What he’s doing is very focused, very direct.

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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.

The painter was a Flemish master, Rogier Van Der Weyden. Today it is one of the greatest masterpieces in Spain's National Gallery, the Prado, in Madrid.

Rogier van der Weyden’s The Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald in the Golden Chamber (around 1435-50) We know precious little about the life of Rogier van der Weyden, one of the most influential ...