The Merode Altarpiece

Article number 10156325

This issue of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin is devoted to the Merode Altarpiece, one of the masterpieces of Early Netherlandish painting traditionally associated with the workshop of Robert Campin. The publication examines the history, iconography, attribution, technique, conservation and artistic significance of the triptych. Particular attention is given to its symbolism, materials, restoration and place within fifteenth-century Flemish art.