The Seven Sacraments (right panel)

The right panel of the Seven Sacraments altarpiece continues the innovative scheme of depicting sacraments within a single Gothic church. Together with the central and left panels, this triptych represents one of the most ambitious programs in early Netherlandish painting 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 sixt

The architectural continuity across panels creates an illusionistic church interior of remarkable spatial coherence. The careful calibration of light and shadow across the three panels unifies them into a single visual experience.