The Wilton Diptych and the Absolutism of Richard II

Authors

Sumner Ferris, California University of Pennsylvania

Publication Date

1987

Keywords

painting, Richard II, Wilton Diptych

Abstract

The Wilton Diptych (in The National Gallery, London) may now, after some years of hesitation on the matter, be considered to be very probably the work of an English artist. Consequently, we may take the painting to be not simply a masterpiece of the International Style but a specifically English masterpiece of the age of Richard II, the kind whom it chiefly honors and depicts, and we may expect to find in it a specifically English meaning.

Recommended Citation

Ferris, Sumner (1987) "The Wilton Diptych and the Absolutism of Richard II," Quidditas: Vol. 8, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/rmmra/vol8/iss1/4