Frames and supports in 15th and 16th-century Southern Netherlandish painting

CARVED AND PAINTED DECORATION 97 Fig. 52. Wings and backs painted red or black, both colours sometimes with additional decoration of florets and stars, texts, coats of arms, grisailles… Red: a. Back of Anonymous, Triptych of the Reliquary of the Virgin’s Veil , late 14th century (Tongeren, BOL , no. 1 ). b. Back (wings open) of the Tower Retable with Scenes from the Infancy of Christ (Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Bergh, inv. no. 2). c. Closed wings of Anonymous, Triptych of the Virgin and Child. Coats of arms Van der Noot-Van der Meeren , before 1478 , outside: painted on wood (inside: centre painted under glass, mounted in wood; wings: painting under glass no longer extant) (Brussels, Royal Museums of Art and History, inv. no. 2955). Black: d. Anonymous, Triptych of the Adoration of the Sheperds , 16th century (Bruges, OLPM, no. 9 ). e. Anonymous, Triptych of the Crucifixion , 1554 (Bruges, OLPM , no. 4 ). f. Adriaen Isenbrant (workshop), Triptych of the Descent from the Cross , 1520 (Bruges, OLPM , no. 2 ). a b c d e f