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In the Catholic Church, seven set periods of devotion: matins and lauds, prime, terce, sext, nones, evensong or vespers, and compline.
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Van der Paele, who reconciles several modes of worship, observing his canonical office while embracing a popular form of devotion, is paradigmatic for Harbison, who aims to show how Van Eyck and his patrons "drew on different aspects of lay piety," invoking the cult of the Sacred Heart in the Dresden Triptych, eliciting the devotion of pilgrims to cult statues in the Virgin and Child in a Church, and propounding a modern icon in the Virgin and Child by a Fountain.
Jan van Eyck: The Play of Realism by Melion, Walter S. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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