Beaune (Côte d’Or), Hôtel-Dieu,
courtyard. Photograph courtesy of
Joan A.Holladay.
Beaune (Côte d’Or), Hôtel-Dieu.
Photograph courtesy of Whitney S.
Stoddard.
tect Jean de Visscher (or Wiscrère). The exterior is picturesque, with its high-pitched roof
covered with multicolored glazed tiles, its wooden galleries, dormer windows, lacework
leaden ornamentation, and gilded vanes. The main ward inside is 172 feet long under an
impressive polychromed timber roof in the form of an upturned ship’s keel. Within is the
magnificent Last Judgment by Rogier van der Weyden, commissioned by Rolin in 1443
for the high altar of the main ward.
William W.Kibler/William W.Clark
[See also: BURGUNDY; CHARLES THE BOLD; HOSPITALS; TONNERRE; VAN
DER WEYDEN, ROGIER]
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