De ongelovige Thomas

Bernard van Orley painted this Doubting Thomas around 1513, depicting the apostle's encounter with the Risen Christ. As court painter in Brussels, van Orley produced religious works that brought a new Italianate monumentality to traditional Netherlandish devotional subjects Bernard van Orley introduced Italian Renaissance elements into Flemish painting, serving as court painter in Brussels and designing celebrated tapestry cycles Egg tempera on panel was the dominant technique of the period, de

The panel shows van Orley's developing synthesis of Netherlandish precision with Italian figure scale, in a composition that balances intimate devotional content with Renaissance spatial grandeur.