The annunciation, featured in the central panel of the mérode altarpiece, contains many symbols of flemish bourgeois life and piety, including __________.

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The annunciation, featured in the central panel of the mérode altarpiece, contains many symbols of Flemish bourgeois life and piety, including finials shaped as dogs, which are symbolic of fidelity and domesticity, lions, which are symbolic of Jesus and his resurrection, a snuffed candle, symbol of old faith, and lilies, which symbolized Mary's purity.

The Merode Altarpiece, an oil painting from the fourteenth century by the Flemish artist Robert Campin (1378-1444), commonly known as the Master of Flemalle, is a private altarpiece.

This early Northern Renaissance masterpiece of Christian art, which bears the name of the aristocratic Merode family of Belgium who owned it in the nineteenth century, is composed of three panel paintings and shows the Mary being informed by the archangel Gabriel that she has been chosen by God to be the mother of Jesus.

The piece is currently housed at the Cloisters Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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