![]() She has discovered the Portinari archive housed in the Archivio di Stato in Florence, which preserves the final will of the triptych’s patron, Tommaso Portinari. Two avenues of Koster’s research, however, break exciting new ground. The book discusses the patronage of the altarpiece, its complex imagery, its relationship to the Devotio Moderna, and its Florentine context, all issues that previous scholars have addressed at length. ![]() Koster’s subject is Hugo’s great Portinari Altarpiece in Florence her aim, as she states, is to “consider every facet” of the triptych. ![]() ![]() Scholarly attention to Hugo van der Goes has increased in recent years, and the present book, a revised and expanded version of the author’s 1999 doctoral dissertation written at Columbia University, makes an important contribution to the literature on the artist. ![]()
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