Hugo van der Goes
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Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440-1482) was a Flemish painter.
Born in Ghent, he entered the artists' guild in 1467. He was later elected dean of the guild. Suffering from a mental illness, he retired to the Red Cloister near Brussels around 1478 in the hopes that living in the monastery would help him overcome his depression. He was considered a lay member of the cloister. Van der Goes attempted suicide in 1480, and died two years later.
He married Maria Maddalena Baroncelli in 1470 and had 10 children
His most famous work is the Portinari Triptych (c. 1475, Uffizi, Florence), an altarpiece commissioned for the church of the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence by Tommaso Portinari, the representative of the Medici family in Bruges.
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