Portrait of a Carthusian: Why is this work so significant?
Channel: CREAR Art and Culture
Date: 2021-01-28

As an early work by Christus, he shows an influence of Jan van Eyck, although he applies novelties such as the correct use of linear perspective and the incorporation of one of the first examples of trompe-l’oeil.

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Petrus Christus, Portrait of a Carthusian (1446), Metropolitan Museum of Art.