Merode Altarpiece

The painting selected for this Art Appreciation exercise is entitled “Merode Altarpiece”, painted by Robert Campin in 1428. This artwork is differentiated in three-piece, which is left, middle and right piece. Let look at the left piece first. In the left piece, we can directly see 3 human figure in this piece, but one figure is smaller than another two. The first figure is a donor, which is wearing a black cloth, belt and holding a hat. He is kneeling in prayer and his face is showing us he is worrying something, and he has a short black hair. Next, the second human figure which is painted is his wife, his wife also kneeling in prayer, she is wearing a red robe inside, black coat outside, and white headscarf, and her face looks like
The last figure is standing the farthest, he is a guard. His attire is wearing a guard uniform, he holding a brown hat. The uniform is dark blue color, his pants are the red color and black boots. He has a long beard and also wearing a white cloat with the upper body. The environment is set by a walled garden.In the foreground, beside two donors has a door. It is an old door, has many nails on the door, each one is defined by a bit of a shine and a bit of shadow, and can ever see traces of rust, that is staining the wood below, middle has a locker, doorknob and a key. The key has a shine and it is casting a shadow, and its downward has white stairs and some grass beside the stairs. This is the large door in the foreground. The donor kneels on a brown land, beside the brown land has some grass. It has rose bush and the foliage in the very foreground. The background of this piece is showing a big brown wall, the guard is standing below and beside a door. The door is opening and outside the door is showing a town, there shows a figure on horseback, a figure in a doorway and a woman sitting on a bench. The topside of the wall got a small room which is red brick design, two windows, and blue roof, and also three bird stay on the ledge if the crenelated