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MASTER of Flémalle: Mérode Altarpiece (Nativity)

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

Soft golden light floods an intimate domestic interior where Mary kneels before the newborn Christ in reverent stillness. This revolutionary triptych merges sacred narrative with Flemish bourgeois life, establishing Northern Renaissance realism and transforming religious art through meticulous detail and humble, everyday spaces.

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