Virgin and Child, with two angels, with a Bruges's landscape background

The Master of the Legend of Saint Lucy was an anonymous Bruges painter of the 1480s whose workshop produced a series of Marian panels notable for their integration of identifiable Bruges urban landscapes into sacred scenes. The Virgin and Child with two angels and a Bruges landscape background is one of the clearest examples of this practice — the Bruges skyline with its distinctive towers is visible behind the figures, transforming the sacred scene into a meditation on the city's devotion to Mary. Such civic identification was standard in Flemish painting commissioned by urban guilds and confraternities.

The Master of Saint Lucy deploys the characteristically Flemish recession from domestic foreground through a loggia or window opening to the urban landscape beyond. The Bruges cityscape is rendered with topographic accuracy — a visual document as much as a devotional background — while the figures maintain the careful half-length format standard in his workshop's Marian panels.