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, where he died insane.
His most famous work is the Portinari Triptych (c. 1475, Uffizi, Florence), an altarpiece commissioned for the Florentine church of San Egidio by Tommaso Portinari , the representative of the Medici family in Bruges.
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