Mérode Altarpiece
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The Mérode Altarpiece is an oil on oak panel triptych, now in The Cloisters in New York. It is unsigned and undated, but attributed to Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin and an assistant. The t
Central panel: 64 × 63 cm; wings: 65 × 27 cm
The Annunciation. The Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, version of the central panel, at one time attributed to Jacques Daret, a pupil of Campin's. This panel was painted earlier than the New York version and may be the original.
Detail, centre panel, with table, book of hours, fading candle and vase
Detail with the Virgin reading a book of hours
The Annunciation has been one of the most frequent subjects of Christian art. Depictions of the Annunciation go back to early Christianity, with the Priscilla catacomb in Rome including the oldest kno
The Virgin shrinks back in reluctance in the Annunciation with Sts. Margaret and Ansanus, by Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, 1333
Aix Annunciation, generally attributed to Barthélemy d'Eyck, c. 1443–1445
Domenico Beccafumi, 1545
Annunciation of Ustyug, 12th century