Depicting a very private annunciation with the patrons peeking in, this is, for 10 points, what triptych, a Netherlandish altarpiece by Robert Campin.
A sword-shaped saw in the foreground of this work is meant to allude to its owner's cutting off the ear of Malchus. The figures at the left, framed before a single armed guard possibly added in later, are likely the Angelprechts from the town of Mechelen, and their two small family crests appear just above a window in the center. Amidst a maiolica pitcher with two blooming lilies, a single unlit candle is smoking in the center while a (*) miniature cross in a bath of gold light flies towards Mary from a window on the top left. On the right panel, a mouse-trap sits in the windowsill, and a fish-trap s being fashioned by St. Joseph the carpenter. Depicting a very private annunciation with the patrons peeking in, this is, for 10 points, what triptych, a Netherlandish altarpiece by Robert Campin.
A sword-shaped saw in the foreground of this work is meant to allude to its owner's cutting off the ear of Malchus.
Merode altarpiece or triptych