• Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece, 1473-78, oil on panel, central panel 2.53 x 3.04 m. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
  • Portinari altarpiece is a triptych portraying the Adoration of Shepards, commissioned for Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence.
  • Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece (1475-76). Oil on panel, 253 cm × 588 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
  • Portinari Altarpiece 1475. by Hugo van der Goes. painting by Hugo van der Goes (Museum: Uffizi). Credit: Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
  • We can only speculate at the reasons for Hugo's melancholy illness, he died in Ghent in 1482. Van der Goes most famous work is the Portinari Altarpiece.
  • Hugo van der Goes - Portinari Altarpiece (central panel), c. 1475. (Source: commons.wikimedia.org).
  • One of my favorite Flemish paintings from the later half of the fifteenth century is the Portinari Altarpiece by Hugo Van Der Goes.
  • Bermejo, said to have been from Córdoba in Spain, features in another painting by Hugo van der Goes, the more famous Portinari Altarpiece.
  • Hugo van der Goes’s Portinari Altarpiece caused quite a stir when it arrived in Florence—the city that was to become its permanent home.
  • Column: A Thousand Words. The Portinari Altarpiece. by Hugo van der Goes by Mary Elizabeth Podles.