Hugo van der Goes

1440–1482 · Northern Renaissance

Hugo van der Goes was a Flemish painter who was one of the most significant and original Early Netherlandish painters of the late 15th century. Van der Goes was an important painter of altarpieces as well as portraits. He introduced important innovations in painting through his monumental style, use of a specific colour range and individualistic manner of portraiture. From 1483 onwards, the presence of his masterpiece, the Portinari Triptych, in Florence played a role in the development of realism and the use of colour in Italian Renaissance art.

33 paintings

• Mourning of Christ (Matthew 27:59–61; Mark 15:46–47; Luke 23:53–56; John 19:38–42)
• Virgin and Child with saints (1474)
• Trinity (1480)
• Joseph and Mary traveling to Bethlehem
• Vierge à l'Enfant au croissant de Lune (1476)
• Portrait of a Man (1480)
• The Virgin and Child
• The Descent from the Cross (1575)
• The Descent from the Cross (1600)
• St Hippolyte Triptych (1468)
• Crucifixion (1470)
• Deposition Diptych (1480)
• Saint Luke Painting the Virgin (1470)
• Death of the Virgin (1470)
• Adoration of the Magi before the stable on the hill (1490)
• The Mourning of Christ (1480)
• Adoration of the Shepherds (1480)
• Monforte Altarpiece (1470)
• Adoration of the Magi (Triptych) (1460)
• The Lamentation (1480)
• Vienna Diptych (1470)
• The Fall of Man (1476)
• Genevieve (1479)
• Portrait of a Man (ca. 1475)
• A Benedictine Monk
• The Adoration of the Magi
• Portrait of an Old Man (ca. 1470–75)
• Trinity Altarpiece (1478)
• Virgin and Child (1474)
• Portrait of a Man at Prayer with Saint John the Baptist (1475)
• Central panel of a Memorial Triptych, formerly called the Gertz Memorial Triptych, with the Lamentation (1527)
• Left wing of a Memorial Triptych, formerly called the Gertz Memorial Triptych, with nine male Donor Portraits with Saint John the Evangelist (inner), and Saint Peter (outer) (1527)
• Portinari Triptych (1475)