Robert Campin

Paintings associated with Robert Campin bring weighty figures and carefully described interiors into early fifteenth-century Netherlandish art. The works grouped around the Master of Flémalle use oil paint to distinguish fabrics, furnishings, faces, and the light falling across them. Images of the Virgin and Annunciation often place sacred subjects within the forms of contemporary domestic life. Campin’s documented workshop at Tournai connects this painting tradition with the training of Rogier van der Weyden.