BROEDERLAM, Melchior
(active 1381-1409)

The Annunciation (detail)

1393-99
Tempera on wood
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon

At the moment of the Annunciation, Mary is sitting in a small pavilion attached to a much larger and much grander building behind. The slender rib vaults, the two windows surmounted by clover-leaf tracery, and the rectangular paving mark the style as Gothic.