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Symbols. Hidden images. 1.Figure 20-4 ROBERT CAMPIN (MASTER OF FLEMALLE), Merode Altarpiece (open), ca. 1425-1428. Oil on wood, center panel 2’ 1 3/8” X 2’ 7/8”, each wing 2’ 1 3/8” X 10 7/8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Cloisters Collection, 1956).

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  2. 1.Figure 20-4 ROBERT CAMPIN (MASTER OF FLEMALLE), Merode Altarpiece (open), ca. 1425-1428. Oil on wood, center panel 2’ 1 3/8” X 2’ 7/8”, each wing 2’ 1 3/8” X 10 7/8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Cloisters Collection, 1956).

  3. Lilies=purity3 lilies=trinityextinguished candle= arrival of Jesus

  4. Fire screen=virginity

  5. Wash basin=cleanse sinsniche=altar

  6. Another extinguished candle

  7. Donor family crests

  8. Entry of Christ

  9. Possible portrait of Campin

  10. Mousetrap=capturing the devil

  11. Figure 20-1 JAN VAN EYCK, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434. Oil on wood, approx. 2’ 9" X 1’ 10 1/2". National Gallery, London.

  12. Candle=all-seeing eye of Godcandle=beginning of marriage

  13. Removal of shoes=marriage is holy ground

  14. Dog=loyaltydog=lust

  15. Bedpost=St. Margaret, patron saint of childbirth

  16. Red curtains=female sexuality

  17. Mirror=Jan Van Eyck and another figuremirror frame=passion of Christ

  18. Signature=Jan Van Eyck was here

  19. Window=male connection to outside worldfruit=woman bears fruit

  20. Figure 20-11 PETRUS CHRISTUS, A Goldsmith in His Shop, 1449. Oil on wood, approx. 3’ 3" X 2’ 10". Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (the Robert Lehman Collection, 1975).

  21. Girdle=chastity

  22. Scales=last judgment

  23. Eucharist containergoldsmiths materials

  24. Mirror=shows couple window shopping

  25. Figure 20-9 ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, ca. 1435-1440. Oil and tempera on wood, 4’ 6 1/8” X 3’ 7 5/8”. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson)

  26. St. Luke=ox

  27. Silverpoint=artist’s importance

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