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Robert Campin ( c . 1375  26 April 1444 ), now usually identified as the artist known as the Master of Flémalle , is usually considered the first great master of Flemish and ___MASK63___ . His identity and the attribution of the paintings in the " Campin group " has been a matter of controversy for decades . His life is relatively well documented for the period , but he did not sign his paintings , and none could be securely connected with him , whilst a corpus of work attached to the unidentified " Master of Flémalle ". Karel van Mander ( I ) or Carel van Mander I ( alternative name spellings : Carel van Mandere , Karel Van Mander and Carel Van Mander ) ( May 1548  2 September 1606 ) was a Flemish painter , poet , art historian and art theoretician , who established himself in the Dutch Republic in the latter part of his life . He is mainly remembered as a biographer of Early Netherlandish painters and Northern ___MASK78___ artists in his " Schilder - boeck ". As an artist and art theoretician he played a significant role in the spread and development of ___MASK51___ in the Dutch Republic . The Beaune Altarpiece ( c . 1445 -- 50 ) , often called The Last Judgement , is a large polyptych altarpiece by the Flemish artist Rogier van der Weyden . It was painted in oil on oak panels , with parts later transferred to canvas . It consists of fifteen paintings on nine panels ; six of these are painted on both sides . It retains some of its original frames . Six outer panels ( or shutters ) are hinged , when folded they show an exterior view of saints and the donors . The inner panels contain scenes from the Last Judgement and are arranged across two registers . The large central panel that spans both registers shows Christ seated on a rainbow in judgement , with his feet resting on a golden globe . Below him the Archangel Michael holds scales as he weighs souls . The panel on Christ ' s far right shows the gates of Heaven , that to his far left the entrance to Hell . The panels of the lower register form a continuous landscape , with figures depicted moving from the central panel to their final destinations after receiving judgement . The altarpiece was commissioned in 1443 for the Hospices de Beaune by Nicolas Rolin , Chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy , and his wife Guigone de Salins , who is buried in front of the altarpiece ' s original location in the hospice . It is one of van der Weyden ' s most ambitious works , equal to his Prado Deposition and lost Justice of Trajan and Herkinbald . It remains in the hospice today , although not in its original position . It is in poor condition and was moved in the 20th century to shield it from sunlight and better protect it from the almost 300 , 000 visitors it receives annually . It has suffered from extensive paint loss , the wearing and darkening of its colours , and an accumulation of dirt . In addition , a heavy layer of over - paint was applied during restoration . The two painted sides of the outer panels have been separated so both can be shown simultaneously ; traditionally , the shutters would have been opened only on selected Sundays or church holidays . Rogier van der Weyden or Roger de la Pasture ( 1399 or 1400  18 June 1464 ) was an Early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs , altarpieces and commissioned single and diptych portraits . He was highly successful and internationally famous in his lifetime ; his paintings were exported  or taken  to Italy and Spain , and he received commissions from , amongst others , Philip the Good , Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes . By the latter half of the 15th century , he had eclipsed Jan van Eyck in popularity . However his fame lasted only until the 17th century , and largely due to changing taste , he was almost totally forgotten by the mid - 18th century . His reputation was slowly rebuilt during the following 200 years ; today he is known , with Robert Campin and van Eyck , as the third ( by birth date ) of the three great Early Flemish artists (' Vlaamse Primitieven ' or ' Flemish Primitives '), and widely as the most influential Northern painter of the 15th century . Karel van Mander wrote that the great artistic contribution of Rogier van der Weyden lies in his ideas , his composition and rendering of the soul ' s expression through pain , happiness or anger , and the tempering of this emotional testimony to the subject matter of his work . Jan van Eyck ( before c . 1390  9 July 1441 ) was a Flemish / Netherlandish painter active in Bruges . He is often considered one of the founders of ___MASK63___ school and one of the most significant representatives of Northern Renaissance art . The few surviving records of his early life indicate that he was born c . 1380  1390 , most likely in Maaseik . He took employment in the Hague as painter and " Valet de chambre " with John III the Pitiless , ruler of Holland and Hainaut in the Hague around 1422 , when he was already a master painter with workshop assistants . After John ' s death in 1425 he was employed in Lille as court painter to Philip the Good , Duke of Burgundy , until 1429 before moving to Bruges , where he lived until his death . He was highly regarded by Philip , and undertook a number of diplomatic visits abroad , including to Lisbon in 1428 to explore the possibility of a marriage contract between the duke and Isabella of Portugal .