frame. When he died on June 16, 1464, he left behind him plenty of well-trained followers to hand on to the next generation the efficient instrument of art-production which he had helped to fashion (Conway 153).
In the 1620s a traveler named Dubuisson-Aubenay journeyed through the Low Countries and wrote a travel account about a painting that many believe today was "The Dream of Pope Sergius," at that time in a church, Our Lady of Flowers at St. Goedele in Brussels. The traveler thought the work was by Rogier van der Weyden. The painting is actually the right section of a diptych, and its companion piece was probably a version of "Exhumation of St. Hubert," perhaps the one today in the National Gallery in London. Indeed, "The Dream of Pope Sergius" is sometimes known as "The Consecration of St. Hubert." "The Dream of Pope Sergius" is 34.5 inches high and 31.5 inches wide. The painting has an odd perspective that gives a curiously archaic aspect to the work. It is achieved by two widely different h
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