A single room, Richelieu wing, between Nordic and French paintings.
But a concentrate of marvels with rich colors and astonishing details.
These thirteen oak panels, works of very good quality, all come from the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon, as part of the current Franco-Portuguese cultural season.
All date from the Renaissance, except for a tortured Saint Vincent;
Nuno Gonçalves, author of this representation of the patron saint of Lisbon, having died the year of the discovery by sea of what Christopher Columbus believed to be the East Indies.
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