Gallery 019 - Merode Room (The Cloisters)

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Gallery Highlights

  • Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
    Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)

    Workshop of Robert Campin (Netherlandish, ca. 1375–1444 Tournai)

    Date: ca. 1427–32
    Accession Number: 56.70a–c

  • Dish
    Dish

    Date: 1425–1450
    Accession Number: 56.171.110

  • The Mater Dolorosa
    The Mater Dolorosa

    Circle of Peter Hemmel von Andlau (Strassburger Werkstattgemeinschaft) (active Southern and Central Germany, ca. 1470–1500)

    Date: ca. 1480
    Accession Number: 1998.215.2

  • Private Devotional Shrine
    Private Devotional Shrine

    Date: ca. 1490
    Accession Number: 1991.10

  • Relief of a Bishop
    Relief of a Bishop

    Date: ca. 1400–1440
    Accession Number: 2002.338

  • Jug
    Jug

    Date: second half 15th century
    Accession Number: 56.171.84

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The room features the famed Early Netherlandish masterpiece the Annunciation Triptych, also known as the Merode Altarpiece, after its previous owner. The wings—including the donor and his wife and Joseph in his workshop—surround the central panel of the Annunciation.

Reflecting the function of this altarpiece, many of the other works of art in the room were intended as aids to private devotion, including a miniature carved and painted altarpiece and a mother-of-pearl triptych. The decorative feature is a fifteenth-century Spanish painted ceiling.

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