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Posted: 19 Nov 2023

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_the_Litom%C4%9B%C5%99ice_Altarpiece


The Mérode Altarpiece is a triptych whose three panels show, the donor and his wife, left panel, The Annunciation, middle panel, and St Joseph on the right panel. The mysterious figure of the donor in the left wing wears the badge of the town of Malines but his identity is unknown.

The central panel is a depiction of a middle-class room in which the Annunciation takes place. The settee which the Virgin leans against is typical of a style common in the Netherlands but the room is filled with the religious symbolism associated with this event. The lilies in the vase symbolise Mary's virginity. The scroll and the book represent the Old and the New Testaments.

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 Dinesh
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. . . . In the ‘Triptych of the Annunciation’ by the Flemish master Robert Campin, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Campin The Annunciation scene in the center penal occurs in the house of Flemish burgher. Every detail has significance. For example, the serious, modestly dressed middle-class donors in the left penal are memorialized observing the mystery, the lilies on the table in the center penal represents the Virgin’s chastity, and Joseph in front of the delicately painted view of fifteenth century city in the right panel carves a mousetrap, symbolizing Christ, the bait set to catch the devil (The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Cloisters Collection)

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 Jaap van 't Veen
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Beautiful work; well captured.
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