altar of Vyšší Brod

work by Theodoric of Prague

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In Western painting: International Gothic
…his panel paintings, especially the altar of Vyšší Brod (c. 1350), shows a curiously Sienese character, though he did not achieve the delicacy associated with paintings from Siena. The emphasis instead is on heavily modeled faces and thick, heavy drapery. Theodoric’s style seems to have initiated the “soft style” that…
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