As contrasting pairs, the Fall and redemption of man, death and life, a paradise awash with light and a dark overcast horizon find their formal counterpart in this stylistic and compositional realization of the theme . The delicate and sharply defined bodies of the first two people are quite different from the figures in the Bewening, which are painterly interpreted and restlessly staged.
Goes, in his apt rendition of the "seducer" with the head of a woman, the body of a salamander and the feet of a water bird, harkens back to an existing tradition that occasionally appears in Dutch (book) paintings.
Hugo van der Goes (Ghent, Flanders, Belgium ca. 1440 - Oudergem, 1482/1483) was a Flemish painter. Along with painters such as Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, he is counted among the Flemish Primitives. He introduced important innovations in painting through his monumental style, use of a specific range of colors and individualistic manner of portraiture.
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