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
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
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Spike Bucklow, The Riddle of the Image, 2014
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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
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"Methods and Materials of Northern European Paintings in the National Gallery 1400 - 1550," National Gallery Technical Bulletin, 1997
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