"The Dream of Pope Sergius"
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The painting "The Dream of Pope Sergius" by the artist identified as the Follower or Rogier van der Weyden now resides at the J. Paul Getty Museum. If little is known about the Follower, including his name, not very much is known about Rogier van der Weyden, either. A few facts of his life and work have been uncovered through archival research, but the interpretation of several facts remains controversial. His most celebrated paintings were destroyed at the end of the seventeenth century, but still it is possible to cite him as one of the most powerful and perhaps most influential of all fifteenth-century European painters (Campbell 5). Van der Weyden revolutionized the art of Brussels and also had a major influence on every branch of the visual arts throughout the Netherlands. This influence is evident in the painting under discussion and in many other works from that era: During the fifteenth century, in contracts drawn up when pictures were commissioned, it was often stated that the painting to be executed was to be exactly similar to a specified existing painting. . . Patrons came to expect the paintings which they commissioned to look like Van der Weyden's work, to see the saints and the standard religious subjects much as Van der Weyden had represented them (Campbell 17). This is evident in "The Dream of Pope Sergius." Just as many painters imitated Van der Weyden, so Van der Weyden was known for his similarity to Van Eyck. Together they constitute the two
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the two would soon meet, and St. Hubert did indeed arrive in Rome that same day. He was consecrated Bishop of Maastricht by Pope Sergius, and that is the subject of the other half of the diptych. St. Hubert would later transfer the remains of Lambert to Liège, and that city would then become the bishopric of which St. Lambert is still honored as patron, while St. Hubert is honored as founder and first bishop.
The artist's understanding of Rome is crucial to an understanding of the picture:
Where it is a question of topographical information imparted by a picture, a comparison with correctly labelled topographical prints should be of obvious value, in testing its reliability. Thus, the scale of the painter's rendering of the Borgo is incongruous, which should hardly come as a surprise, since it was not until 1550 that Hendrik van Cleve drew the first map of Rome with a consistent scale (Van Miegroet 486).
Actually, the information which pictures were expected to provide in fifteen-century Flemish art differs widely from what we would expect of a topographic image today:
Not only were images scarce in the past, but so were the public's opportunities to check their representations. . . It is, therefore, hardly surprising
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Approximate Word count = 1709
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page)
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