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Episode 14 - More Memories of the Forest

Workshop of Robert Campin, Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece), ca. 1427–32

Oil on oak, overall (open): 25 3/8 x 46 3/8 in. (64.5 x 117.8 cm)
The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Cutting trees into planks

Merode Altarpiece, unframed - details of edges

Merode Altarpiece - details of hinges

Gerard David, Christ Carrying the Cross, with the Crucifixion; The Resurrection, with the Pilgrims of Emmaus, ca. 1510

Oil on oak panel, left wing: 34 1/2 x 11 5/8 in (87.7 x 29.5 cm); right wing: 34 1/2 x 11 3/4 in (87.6 x 30 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Gerard David, Archangel Gabriel; The Virgin Annunciate, ca. 1510

Oil on oak panel, left wing: 34 1/2 x 11 5/8 in. (87.7 x 29.5 cm; right wing: 34 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (87.6 x 30 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jan and Hubert van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece (exterior), 1432

Oil on oak, open dimensions 11 ft 6 in x 15 ft (350 x 460 cm)

St. Bavo's Cathedral, Ghent

Rogier van der Weyden, The Beaune Altarpiece, c. 1445 - 50

Oil on oak, open dimensions 7 ft 2 in x 18 ft (220 x 548 cm)

Hospices de Beaune, France

End grain of an oak panel

Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece),

Central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in. (64.1 x 63.2 cm)

Rogier van der Weyden, The Miraflores Altarpiece (detail), c. 1442

Oil on panel, 28 x 17 in (71 x 43 cm)

Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

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Juan de Flandes, The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist, 1496–99

Oil on wood, 34 13/16 x 19 5/8 in (88.4 x 49.9 cm)

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Robert Campin or Jacques Daret, The Annunciation, c. 1420

Tempera (?) on oak, 24 x 25 in (61 x 63.7 cm)

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Juan de Flandes, Copy after Rogier van der Weyden

Christ Appearing to His Mother, c. 1496

Oil on wood, 25 x 15 in (63.5 x 38.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Recommended Reading

Spike Bucklow, The Riddle of the Image, 2014

Peter Ian Kuniholm, "Dendrochronology (Tree Ring Dating) of Panel Paintings," Appendix L in The Science of Paintings by W. Stanley Taft and James W. Mayer, 2000

"Methods and Materials of Northern European Paintings in the National Gallery 1400 - 1550," National Gallery Technical Bulletin, 1997

https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/research-resources/technical-bulletin/technical-bulletin-volume-18

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