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English: Wilton Diptych: Virgin and Child with Angels (

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Artist

Unknown Master, French (second half of 14th century)

Title

English: Wilton Diptych: Virgin and Child with Angels

Object type

painting

Description

English: The Wilton Diptych (c.1395-1399) is a portable altarpiece taking the form of a diptych. It was painted for King Richard II.

Date

1395

Medium

tempera on oak wood

Dimensions

height: 36.8 cm (14.4 in); width: 26.7 cm (10.5 in)

Collection

National Gallery

	Native name	National Gallery
	Parent institution	Board of Trustees of the National Gallery
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 30′ 32″ N, 0° 07′ 42″ W
	Established	1824
	Website	nationalgallery.org.uk
	Authority file	: Q180788 VIAF: 144868906 ISNI: 0000000123422001 ULAN: 500125190 LCCN: n80081622 NLA: 35311349 WorldCat

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UNKNOWN MASTER, French

(second half of 14th century)

Wilton Diptych: Virgin and Child with Angels 1395 Tempera on oak panel, 36,8 x 26,7 cm National Gallery, London

This is the right panel of the Wilton Diptych (named after the house in which it was preserved), the finest work in England in the International Gothic style. Although it is a painting of extraordinary beauty and must be from the hand of an artist of the highest rank, critics disagree as to whether he was English, French or Italian.

St Edmund, king and martyr, St Edward the Confessor and St John the Baptist present the kneeling monarch Richard II of England in the left panel to the azure assembly of the Virgin and Child, attended by angels, on the right panel. The left scene is set in an earthly forest, the right in the flowering garden of heaven.

The artist, who was probably one of the king's painters, has lavished more care on the delineation of the personal emblems and insignia of the king than on his actual personality. There was no need for the latter, since this donor image was meant for the eyes of the donor himself. The monarch wears around his neck the white hart badge which Richard adopted in 1390 as his personal insignia. It reappears on the reverse of the left panel. Both it and the French insignia of broom-cods (seed-pods) are woven into the king's iridescent gold mantle. The white hart badge is also worn by each of the eleven angels, who thus become royal retainers. One of them holds the banner of St George. The event commemorated here has been conjectured as Richard's coronation in 1377, his seeking divine sanction for a crusade in the mid-1990s, or his meeting with the French king in 1396.

But need it refer to a specific historical moment? Surely it is an outstanding example of a private image, a portable diptych that would follow the king on his travels. Every time he knelt before it he would be transported among the timeless company of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the angels.

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Author: UNKNOWN MASTER, French Title: Wilton Diptych: Virgin and Child with Angels Time-line: 1351-1400 School: French Form: painting

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