Robert Campin Master of Flmalle

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Robert CampinMaster of Flémalle

• Ca. 1375 - 1444
• Much documented in Tournai (Doornik)
• 1405-06 documented 1410 citizenship
• 1423 Revolt of the craft guilds
• 1427 Apprentice list
• 1428 Return of the old faction
• 1429 For obstruction of justice fined,
  pilgrimage
• Condemnation for adultery 1 year banishment
• Apprentices Jacques Daret and Roger van der
  Weyden
• become masters
• Decline after 1432?
• Only dated work Werl shutters 1438

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Believed at one time to come from Flémalle Now
considered independent fragments of larger
ensemble 160 x 68 cm 152 x 61 cm From the
Frankfurt Staedel Museum
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St Veronica
"vera icon" true image On the road to Calvary,
Veronica wipes the face of Christ and captures
his image on the sudarium.
Oil on wood. Stadelsches Kunstinstitut,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Nursing Madonna
Oil on wood, 160 x 68 cmStädelsches
Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
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Holy Trinity
Oil on wood 148,7 x 61 cmStädelsches
Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
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Early 1410s Cleveland Museum Read more
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Dijon NativityAdoration of the Child
Oil on wood, 87 x 70 cmMusée des Beaux-Arts,
Dijon Dated relatively early, ca. 1420-25 A
type much imitated in Campins workshop. Jacques
Daret Details illustrates the revelation of
Swedish St. Bridget / Birgitta Cave, white
tunic, candle Canonized 1391, confirmed 1415
Council of Constance Good and bad midwives
Zelomi (Salome) and Rachel
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she gave birth to her son, from whom radiated
such an ineffable light and splendour, that the
sun was not comparable to it, nor did the candle,
that St Joseph had put there, give any light at
all, the divine light totally annihilating the
material light of the candle.
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MidwivesRachel and Salome
From the apocryphal Book of James
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Robert Campin
Master of Vyssi Brod
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Nativity
Master of Vyssi Brod
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Merode Altarpiece
Metropolitan Museum, NY Cloisters Ca. 1425-30
(before Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece) Triptych
format three panels Center 25 1/4 x 24
7/8" Each wing 25 1/4 x 10 3/4" Donors
variously identified, prob. Ingelbrechts of
Malines
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As a ray of the sun Through a window can pass And
yet no hurt is done The translucent glass. So,
but more subtly, Of a mother untried, God, the
son of God Comes forth from his bride.
In the Revelations of St. Bridget, Christ said to
her I took a body without sin or lust,
entering the maiden as the sun shining through a
clear stone. For as the sun entering the glass
hurts it not, so the Virginity of the Virgin
abode uncorrupt.
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Mousetrap
Mouse Devil
Augustine The devil exulted when Christ died,
but by this very death of Christ the devil was
vanquished, as if he had swallwed the bait in the
mousetrap. He rejoiced in Christs death, like a
bailiff of death. What he rejoiced in was then
his own undoing. The cross of the Lord was the
devils mousetrap the bait by which he was
caught was the Lords death.
Is there more than one meaning here? In the
coarse humor of the time, a mousetrap could
refer to the private parts of a female, who also
trap the devilish mouse. What is Joseph drilling?
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Holy Family
Joseph will perfect, Mary enlighten, and Jesus
save you
A new image of Joseph promoted by Jean Gerson as
laborer and provider work is virtuous witness
to and protector of Marys virginity
Article by Cynthia Hahn.
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Joseph's Tools
Isaiah 1015 Shall the ax boast itself against
him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw
magnify itself against him who wields it? As if
a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if the
staff should lift up itself, as if it were no
wood. Ambrose Joseph like a good artisan
of the soul trims off our vices all around, takes
the ax to the unfruitful trees, cuts shoots, and
softening the rigidity of souls in the fire of
the spirit, and fashioning humankind by different
sorts of ministries for various uses.
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Resources
Web Gallery of Art Master of Flemalle / Robert
Campin Olga's Gallery Robert Campin Robert
Campin Online Webmuseum (Paris) Dijon
Nativity Robert Campin in the London National
Gallery