The Seven Sacraments (central panel)

The central panel of the Seven Sacraments triptych shows the Crucifixion at the center of the Gothic church, with the sacrament of the Eucharist being celebrated at the altar below. This theological program equates Christ's sacrifice with the ongoing sacramental life of the Church Rogier van der Weyden combined exquisite emotional intensity with compositional clarity, making him the most influential Flemish painter of the mid-fifteenth century Oil on canvas, increasingly preferred over panel in

The towering crucified Christ dominates the church interior, his cross rising to the apex of the Gothic vault. The perspective converges at the altar below the cross, creating a powerful visual link between sacrifice and sacrament.