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- The Pagagnotti Triptych is an oil-on-wood triptych by Hans Memling produced circa 1480. The original was disassembled and separated, with the center panel held at the Uffizi gallery in Florence and the two wing panels at the National Gallery in London. The center (Virgin and Child with two angels) features an enthroned Virgin holding the Child flanked by angels; the left wing shows St. John with a lamb and the right St. Lawrence holding a book. Virgin and saints are positioned within an area enclosed with archways and columns; a landscape and buildings are visible through the rear openings. A highly unusual night scene showing nine cranes standing beneath a coat of arms is painted on the reverse of the side panels. The festoons and putti above the Madonna are elements specific to Italian art of the period but not to Early Netherlandish art, suggesting Memling undertook the commission for an Italian donor, most likely Bishop Benedetto Pagagnotti. The art historian Paula Nuttall describes the triptych as "a tour de force, pictorially, technically, and conceptually." Memling combined pictorial traditions and influences from Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden to evoke the sculptural representations with Italian all'antica influences and motifs. Elements from the painting, especially its background, were copied by Florentine artists such as Fra Filippino Lippi and Fra Bartolomeo. A similar triptych exists, executed by the Master of the Legend of St Ursula. (en)
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