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MASTER of Flémalle: Mérode Altarpiece

🖼 Mérode Altarpiece, c. 1427
Oil on wood (central) (each wing)
64 × 63 cm
New York, United States

Domestic intimacy floods this triptych as Mary reads in her bourgeois chamber, rendered with jewel-like precision and Northern light. Revolutionary for elevating the Annunciation to everyday household scale, it pioneered Flemish realism's fusion of sacred and secular space.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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