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Mérode Altarpiece

work by Campin

Also known as: “Annunciation Triptych”

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In Robert Campin
…of his masterpieces is the Mérode Altarpiece (c. 1428), a triptych of the Annunciation with the donors and St. Joseph on the wings. The Virgin is portrayed in a setting of bourgeois realism in which interior furnishings are rendered with the frank and loving attention to detail that was to…
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