How did rogier van der weyden die

Rogier van der Weyden was one of the most profound and influential painters of the 15th century. He was internationally famed for the naturalism of his detail and his expressive pathos. He created a range of types - for portraits and for religious subjects - which were repeated throughout the Netherlands, the Iberian peninsula, and even Italy, until the mid-16th century.

Rogier van der Weyden was apprenticed to Robert Campin in Tournai from March 1427 to August 1432. He soon equalled his master and was later to influence Campin's work. In 1435 he was made painter to the city of Brussels. In 1450 he may have travelled to Rome. He worked for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, and for foreign princes, as well as for the city and church.

Among his greatest works is a powerful 'Descent from the Cross' (Madrid, Prado), which helps us to imagine the impact of the whole altarpiece of which 'The Magdalen Reading' is a fragment. The Gallery has several of his smaller religious works. The uneven quality of these raises the issue of workshop collaboration.

Born in the Tournai region of Belgium, Rogier de le Pasture, known as Rogier van der Weyden or Rogier de Bruxelles, is considered one of the greatest Flemish painters of the 15th Century, among contemporaries like Jan van Eyck (1385 – 1441). His vigorous, yet subtle and expressive painting in popular religious conceptions had considerable influence on European painting. This was not only in France, but in Germany, Italy and Spain.

Van der Weyden’s style was followed closely by painters such as Hans Memling (1430 – 1494), although it is not proven that he was a direct pupil. Van der Weyden also had great influence on the German painter and engraver Martin Schongauer (1448 – 1491), whose prints were distributed all over Europe since the last decades of the 15th century. Indirectly Schongauer's prints helped to disseminate Van der Weyden's style.

His first known training is noted in the Tournai workshop of Robert Campin (1375 – 1444), working alongside Jacques Daret (1404 – 1470), though some doubts to this exist. After van der Weyden settled in Brussels he b

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