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Mérode Altarpiece

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The Mérode Altarpiece is an oil on oak panel triptych attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin and an assistant, unsigned and undated, now held at The Cloisters in New York. Its three panels show the donors kneeling in prayer in a garden, the Annunciation to Mary set in a contemporary domestic room, and Saint Joseph at work as a carpenter with the tools of his trade. The painting carries rich religious symbolism, including a lily and a fountain, and the Holy Spirit represented by rays of light entering through the central panel window. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Year Created
1500 2
Medium
Oil on oak panel 1
Location
The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Wood 2
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In Form

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Source Wikidata: Mérode Altarpiece

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Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Mérode Altarpiece (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    The Merode Altarpiece (or Annunciation Triptych) is an oil on oak panel triptych, now in The Cloisters in New York
  • Provenance
    has been in the collection of the Cloisters, New York, since 1956
  • Genre reference
    The Mérode Altarpiece is an oil on oak panel triptych attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Robert Campin and an assistant, unsigned and undated, now held at The Cloisters in New York.
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2. Wikidata: Mérode Altarpiece
  • Wikidata Q285392, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)
  • Wikidata Q285392, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    The Mérode Altarpiece (or Annunciation Triptych) 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 thre
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