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Robert Campin/Master of Flemalle Merode Altarpiece 1425-30 We watch the annunciation set inside a modern bourgeois home as if through a window. Campin expanded the possibilities of oil paint. The details carry symbolic meaning, as was common in Flemish art. There's no 1pt perspective in Netherlands yet, space and scale are surreal. Extreme minute detail, but the folds are more angular and aesthetic than beholden to gravity. Candle, mousetrap, towel, lily all symbolic. |
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Jan van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece 1432 Paragone, the outside paintings of sculptural figures are like "a painter can paint a sculpture!" Virgin and angel outside are nearly monochrome, like sculpture. Bottom is procession of saints, top we have adam and eve outside, cain and abel above, choir of angels, mary and joseph, and god the father. Below god the father is holy ghost/dove, below that is sacrificial lamb AKA jesus with a wound gushing blood into a cup. |
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Jan Van Eyck Man with a Red Turban 1433 Possible self portrait, rendering of light on fabric is exquisite. The turban is not something he would have worn regularly, serves more like an abstraction of his mind. |
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Jan Van Eyck Arnolfini Double Portrait 1434 Italian patron and his wife, we're probably witnessing an engagement or marriage. Scene is set in remarkably private room. Perspective is close to 1pt but not truly it, but Van Eyck is getting at something similar. Back wall says "Van Eyck was here," and in the mirror we see 2 figures beyond the picture plane, one is likely Van Eyck himself. |
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Rogier Van Der Weyden Descent from the Cross 1435 Christ and Mary's bodies are in parallel, curved positions. The scene is in a shallow, framed area full of gothic tracery. It's the space a sculpture would be placed in, though people are clearly meant to be flesh and blood. |
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Rogier van der Weyden St. Luke Drawing the Virgin 1435-40 St. Luke was fashioned as an artist, according to legend the reason we know what the virgin and child looked like is that they appeared to him to be drawn. St. Luke was also patron saint of doctors, pharmacists and artists were connected because they used many of the same herbs and minerals. Meta subject- artist painting an artist at work. There's a deep Flemish landscape in the bg. |
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Hugo van der Goes Portinari Altarpiece 1476 In the 1480s the Italian patron who commissioned this brought it back to Italy. One of the first documented Northern paintings to be brought to Florence. The scale seemed weird to Italians but they were impressed by the incredible detail in the figures. |
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Hans Memling Virgin & Child with Patron (Maarten van Niewenhoven) Portrait, 1487 References are made in the picture to the status and family of the donor, such as in the stained glass window. The figure in the window is St. Martin, his name saint, giving half his cloak to a beggar. The apple Mary hands to Christ is a symbol of the tree of knowledge and of the burden he accepts, his duty to die for humanity's sins. Mirror behind virgin is perhaps a Van Eyck homage, you can see Maarten beside Mary in the mirror. |
