ZHANG Jin-shiAbstract: The ideasof the Netherlandish landscape architect, Adriaan Geuze, origin from hisuniqueunderstanding of natureandinfluenced by some arttrends.
But these reallocated galleries also facilitate the unification of the Northern paintings (German, Netherlandish, Dutch, Flemish), which had previously been disconnected.
Most moving are the gentle faces of the African Magus and his attendant, the only two figures who look directly at the viewer in the c. 1514 "Adoration of the Kings" from the workshop of the Netherlandish master Gerard David.
In this regard, Braque likely knew of the iconographical use of a skull in an extraordinary 15th-century altarpiece panel picture in the Louvre, painted by the Netherlandish master Rogier van der Weyden and named the "Braque Triptych" for the work's patron, one Jehan Braque of Tournai.