1. Annunciation Triptych
Mérode Altarpiece
Annunciation Triptych
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2. Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle), Mérode Altarpiece (open), ca
Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle), Mérode Altarpiece (open), ca Oil on wood,center panel 2’ 1.375’’ X 2’ 1.875’’, each wing 2’ 1.375’’ X ’’. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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3. Cue Card Information N: Annunciation Triptych (Mérode Altarpiece)
D: ca
P: Netherlandish
A: Robert Campin
Pa: Peter Inghelbrecht and Margarete Scrynmaker
L: South Netherlands (Flanders) Metropolitan, New York
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4. Cue Card Information (Cont.)
M/T: Oil on Wood
F: object of private devotion; depicts the Virgin’s miraculous pregnancy
C: a hallmark of Early Netherlandish style, using illusionistic effects and careful details to show a three-dimensional scene on a flat surface
DT:very detailed, depth, symbolic
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5. The Setting In a domestic setting Specific to the period
Before this period, the
Annunciation was
depicted in a church and now is being depicted in a middle-class household.
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6. Left Wing
Robert Campin depicts his patrons in the left wing of the artwork.
The male is Peter Inghelbrecht. The last name Inghelbrecht means “angel bringer”.
The other patron was Inghelbrecht’s wife, Margarete Scrynmakers. Scrynmakers means “cabinet- or shrine-makers”.
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7. Patron’s Influence
The patron’s during this time had a very big influence of the artist’s. Because of the meaning of the two patron’s last names, the probably urged the artist, Campin, to choose this subject to paint.
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8. Left Wing (Cont.) The garden represents the Virgin Mary’s purity.
The flowers specifically symbolize Mary’s virtues, especially humility.
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9. Mary’s husband, Joseph, is depicted in the right wing
The city scape is depicted through the window secured the said location, Flanders.
Mary’s husband, Joseph, is depicted in the right wing
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10. Right Wing
The ax, saw, wood and rod allude to Isaiah 10:15 of the Bible.
“Does the ax raise itself above the person who swings it, or the saw boast against the one who uses it? As if a rod were to wield the person who lifts it up, or a club brandish the one who is not wood!”
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11. Right Wing
Joseph is seen constructing a mousetrap and is believed to be completely unaware of the activities in the center section. Traps are symbolic in Christianity as the trap itself symbolizes the world, the bait symbolizes Christ and the trap is set to catch the devil. There is also a mousetrap placed directly outside the window.
Mousetrap = World
Bait = Christ
Mouse/Rat = The Devil
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12. The Angel Gabriel has come to announce Mary’s miraculous pregnancy
Middle Section
The Angel Gabriel has come to announce Mary’s miraculous pregnancy
Virgin Mary
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13. The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit is shown coming through one of the left hand windows carrying a cross to impregnate the Virgin Mary with Jesus Christ.
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14. THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS COMING TOGETHER
FIRE SCREEN =
PURITY
TOWELS =
PURITY
BOOKS =
THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS COMING TOGETHER
COPPER BASIN =
PURITY
LILIES =
MARY’S VIRGINITY
BENCH =
THRONE OF SOLOMON or
SEAT OF WISDOM
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15. SYMBOLIZES THE MOMENT WHEN JESUS TAKES HUMAN FORM
Middle Section
EXTINGUISHED
CANDLE
SYMBOLIZES THE MOMENT WHEN JESUS TAKES HUMAN FORM
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16. Middle Section
The table in the artwork is not round! It has sixteen sides which are said to represent the 16 prophets.
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