Archers' Guild Altarpiece
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Archers' Guild Altarpiece
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The Archers' Guild Altarpiece is a c.1590 painting by Maerten de Vos, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Around 1585 Alessandro Farnese succeeded in reintroducing Catholicism to the Southern Netherlands. Partly because he was in favour of guild altars, the Oude Voetboog archers' guild in Antwerp commissioned the work from de Vos. The central panel shows Christ Triumphant, trampling a dragon, a skull and a scorpion and with two angels holding laurel leaves over his head. The guild's pa
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Painting by Maerten de Vos
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archers%27_Guild_Altarpiece
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2024-04-08T01:56:31Z
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