# The Annunciation \(detail\)

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BROEDERLAM, Melchior](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623>)
- Date: 1351-1400
- Technique: Tempera on wood

## Commentary

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.

## Related artworks

- [Presentation in the Temple and Flight to Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/presentation-in-the-temple-and-flight-to-egypt-r1c4b208a9a1599>)
- [The Annunciation and the Visitation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-annunciation-and-the-visitation-rf1835048b81f31>)
- [The Annunciation \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-annunciation-detail-r2576ff578e8424>)
- [The Annunciation \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-annunciation-detail-rd6c3a6887c2e88>)
- [The Annunciation \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-annunciation-detail-rf3c2c993fbf1fa>)
- [The Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-annunciation-rdefa72f85b5368>)
- [The Dijon Altarpiece](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-dijon-altarpiece-ra343cbcc5c43ac>)
- [The Flight into Egypt \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-flight-into-egypt-detail-r493e7a74822e44>)
- [The Flight into Egypt \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-flight-into-egypt-detail-rbdbf6efc08e0fe>)
- [The Flight into Egypt \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-flight-into-egypt-detail-re8799ca7d2ab16>)
- [The Flight into Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-flight-into-egypt-re90d05785dc8d7>)
- [The Flight into Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/broederlam-melchior-re770884e47d623/the-flight-into-egypt-ref8cdc971c6bd1>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)