Turin-Milan Hours: Christ Blessing (verso)

Christ Blessing (verso) ; Facing the viewer, Christ raises his right hand in a gesture of blessing. In his left hand he holds stone tablets inscribed with a passage from John 14:6: Ego sum via veritas vita, "I am the way and the truth and the life." This miniature was painted by an artist in the workshop of Jan van Eyck, one of the most influential painters of the northern Renaissance. Christ's facial type, the authority of the Lord's gaze, and the expressive breadth and weight of the mantel are particularly characteristic of van Eyck. In the short prayer accompanying the image, the petitioner... Mehr ...