Art History 112 FINAL EXAM
Title: Merode Altarpiece Artist: Robert Campin (Master of Flemalle) Date/Place: c. 1425- 1430/Cloisters Museum, New York, NY Significance: Annunciation of Jesus Placed in an "interior" a. makes it easier to visualize yourself in Mary's place and how you are suppose to act. b. Joseph is being shown as a good upright tradesman - not shown as a fool like he most previously was. c. Very upright - the upper middle class are being given good models for how they should act. d. Mary is sitting on the floor. Position is called "the Virgin of humidity" Reading the New testament. e. Angel has just flown in. i.)The pages of the book are fluttering because the angel just swooped in. f. Bench has small lions = the thrown of Soloman = the Thrown of wisdom. Mary was often thought of as being really smart. g. The candle has been blown out - when Christ was born he was the light and they do not need the light. h. The 3 flowers in the vase with the fake Hebrew lettering--Father and Holy Spirit but not the son = Jesus. i. God is flying with his cross through the window aimed straight for Marys belly--God inpregnanted Mary.
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