Marmion is mentioned in Amiens in 1449-54; from 1458 he was in Valenciennes; and he recorded in the Tournai Guild in 1468. There are no documented paintings, but the panels of 'The Soul of Saint Bertin' are usually accepted as key works. He appears also to have been a painter of manuscript illuminations.
Simon Marmion
active 1449; died 1489
Paintings by Simon Marmion
These musical angels were originally at the top of the left wing of an elborate altarpiece that sat at the high altar of the Abbey of St Bertin in Saint-Omer, northern France. Beneath them Guillaume Fillastre, abbot of St Bertin and the altarpiece’s commissioner, knelt at prayer inside a Gothic b...
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Two angels carry a small, naked figure upwards. Below is part of a roof; above, God the Father sits on a Gothic throne, ringed by angels with multiple wings. This is the top part of the right wing of an altarpiece that stood on the high altar of the Abbey of St Bertin in Saint-Omer, northern Fran...
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Follower of Simon Marmion
This was once the left wing of a triptych (a painting made up of three sections) which showed a man and woman with their patron saints on either side of an image of the Virgin and Christ Child.Here, Saint Clement stands behind a man, presumably the male donor who paid for the triptych. The anchor...
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