Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Lochner, 1447)
Painting by Stefan Lochner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Presentation of Christ in the Temple is a painting by the German artist Stefan Lochner, created c. 1447. it is held in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon. It was once the wing of a diptych, the opposite, now separated, panel was a depiction of the Nativity. Its reverse shows the Stigmatisation of St. Francis.[2] The panel is dedicated to St. Catherine and shows the purification of the Virgin. It is the first of two of Lochner's treatments of the subject - a larger painting completed two years later is kept at the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany. The two panels are the only known dated paintings left by Lochner.[3]
The work seems derived from and influenced by Flemish art; similarity can be seen in the facial type given to Simeon, as well as certain elements of the architecture.[3]