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MASTER of Flémalle: Mérode Altarpiece (left wing)

🖼 Mérode Altarpiece (left wing), c. 1427
Oil on wood
64.5 × 27.3 cm
New York, United States

Intimate domestic space rendered in jewel-toned oil paint, where Mary sits reading amid meticulously detailed objects—a brass basin, burning candle, fresh flowers. This revolutionary panel merges sacred mystery with bourgeois reality, establishing Northern Renaissance devotional practice and pioneering oil painting's psychological depth.

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