The Life and Miracles of St. Godelieve

Master of the Legend of St. Godelieve, The Life and Miracles of St. Godelieve

Last quarter of the 15th century
Oil on wood
Fully intact altarpiece from the chapel of the Guild of the Load Bearers in the Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk Bruges
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12.79. Purchase: John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1912

The three panels of the triptych comprise seven images that follow St. Godelieve's legend chronologically from left to right. View individual panels:

Left wing, left panel: the charity of St. Godelieve.
Left wing, right panel: Bertolf proposes marriage.
Center, left panel: the wedding banquet.
Center, middle panel: the marriage.
Center, right panel: Bertolf and his mother's ill treatment of Godelieve.
Right wing, left panel: she is murdered.
Right wing, right panel: servants immerse her in water, then take her to her bed.

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Photographed at the Metropolitan by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.