Robert Campin, Mérode Altarpiece, c. 1425-30

Triptych with 3 panels:  • central panel: Annunciation

  • left panel or “wing”: Donor Portraits

  • right panel or “wing”: St. Joseph

Masaccio, Trinity

Italian Renaissance comment about the oil painting technique:

“This manner of painting lights up the colors and makes them softer, sweeter, and more delicate, and blended and shaded more easily than other manners of painting..”

Campin, Annunciation, c. 1425-30

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Van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait, 1434

Detail of a different painting by Van Eyck: virgin saints

Detail of dog: a Brussels griffon

(symbol of marital fidelity?)

Convex mirror and Van Eyck’s signature (in Latin): Johannes de Eyck fuit hic (“Jan van Eyck was here”), followed by the date 1434

The Ghent Altarpiece

(Comprises 20 separate panels: 12 visible here plus 8 more on the

back, visible when the wings are closed; see textbook, fig. 14-9)

Adam and Eve

by Masaccio

(fresco in Brancacci Chapel)

Rogier van der Weyden, Descent from the Cross (Deposition), c. 1435

Note: Rogier van der Weyden was a pupil of Robert Campin

(The altarpiece was commissioned by a guild of crossbowmen)

15th-century Flemish sculpture