Rogier van der Weyden

Van der Weyden charges Flemish precision with raw emotion — tears, grief, and tense gestures rendered in crisp line and deep colour against shallow, gold-lit space.

Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1399–1464) was a painter from Belgium, associated with Northern Renaissance.

The 15th–16th-century flowering of the Low Countries and Germany — oil glazes, microscopic detail, and sharp, worldly realism. Northern Renaissance →

More Northern Renaissance painters: Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch.