The triptych of the Master of Moulins

The treasure of the cathedral has, in the sacristy of the chapter, celebrates it triptych of the Virgin in glory (about 1501) of the “Master of Mills”, whose identity remains unknown in spite of various attributions of which that of the museum of Louvre to the painter Jean Hey.

Masterpiece of French art, it was carried out for Pierre II, duke of Bourbon, and Anne of France, which one sees both on each side of the Virgin in glory, accompanied by Suzanne, their daughter. Saint hones introduces the duke, Sainte Anne his wife and his daughter.

It is a retable, with an external greyness representing the Annunciation. Then inside, it is the gushing of the colors, the quality of painting, the sensitivity of the faces and the hands.

The Virgin is wrapped of sun, it with the moon under the feet and is crowned of 12 stars: it is the ierge apocalypse.

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