The Exhumation of Saint Hubert

This painting of the Exhumation of Saint Hubert, now in the National Gallery London, depicts the legendary discovery of the saint's incorrupt body. The subject was of particular significance in the Burgundian Netherlands, where Hubert was venerated as patron of hunters Rogier van der Weyden combined exquisite emotional intensity with compositional clarity, making him the most influential Flemish painter of the mid-fifteenth century Altarpieces featuring rows of standing saints served both litur

The ceremony is staged with careful attention to ecclesiastical ritual and the rich vestments of the participants. Rogier's compositional clarity organizes multiple figures in a readable narrative sequence.