Dom – źródło tożsamości
The Home – a Source of Identity

Summary/Abstract: Analysing the symbolic and structure of Robert Cam- pin’s MérodeTriptych the author notices that the ostensible non-cohesion of the objects and the inte- rior in the scene of the Annunciation comprises an in- troduction, intended by the author, of three parallel axes, in which the lines of the perspective meet. Each is ascribed to one of the Three Divine Persons. In this case, they are present as aprinciple introducing order into the whole depicted world and thus legitimise the religious interpretation of the portrayed objects deri- ved from daily life, as symbols referring to supernatu- ral reality. In this work, due to the broached theme associated with daily narration and the symbolic of the work, the artist rendered conception, nativity, and the perspec- tive of death and resurrection; he also expressed the intimate space of loneliness as well as dialogical, social and professional relations. In this fashion, the home shown by Robert Campin conveys the identity of man who, by setting up ahome in aconcrete place and at agiven time, seeks the reasons for existence in asuper- natural order. By gaining apoint of support and an an- chor, he discovers an order that exceeds the dimen- sion of individual existence. In this way, the home, which is both an idea and the experience of settling down, becomes asource of identity that constitutes the correct perspective of the world in which we live.

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