John the Baptist and Henry von Werl by Robert Kampen

The left wing of the triptych is depicted by von Werl, who is praying with St. John the Baptist. . Heinrich von Werl was a Franciscan theologian.

The artist painted it in a long light room with a wooden screen, on which hangs a metal mirror with a room reflected in it. Behind the canon stands his spiritual patron John the Baptist, dressed in a scarlet robe and holding a lamb in his arms. This iconographic attribute of the Holy. Behind the figure of John the Baptist is a window, in it you can see the landscape painted with precision by the miniaturist.

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