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MAP 20-1 France, the duchy of Burgundy, and the Holy Roman Empire in 1477. |
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Artist: Claus Sluter Title: Well of Moses Period:1395–1406 Style: Late Medieval Medium: Limestone with traces of paint, Moses 6 high Description: Chartreuse de Champmol,Dijon, France -The Well of Moses, a symbolic fountain of life made for the duke of Burgundy, originally supported a Crucifixion group. Sluter’s figures recall the jamb statues of French Gothic portals but are far more realistic. Used to be "The Great Cross" but the cross is no longer there. For monks to gain inspiration and continuously pray for duke of Burgundy. Monastery is inspiration for prayer of monks.
-Six prophets in niches with enframing colonettes are on each side of the hexagon. They include Moses, David, Jeremiah, Zechariah, Daniel, and Isaiah--all of whom carry banderoles with their prophesies. Their expressions and gestures indicate the urgency of their prophesies
Moses- seems theatrically angry. The dramatic folds in the voluminous drapery add to the expression of the figure. The horns on his head are typical in medieval art--a mistranslation of the Bible for "rays" of light.
Angels-The angels with their outstretched wings arch above the prophets and provided a transition with the original Calvary grouping above the pedestal.
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Claus Sluter, Well of Moses, Christ, 1395-1406 |
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Artist: Robert Campin (Master of Flémalle) Title: Mérode Altarpiece Period:ca.1425–1428 Style: Medium: Oil on wood, center panel 2' 1 and 3/8" x 2' and 7/8", each wing Description: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Cloisters Collection, 1956) -Campin set the Annunciation in a Flemish merchant’s home in which the everyday objects represented have symbolic significance. Oil paints permitted Campin to depict all the details with loving fidelity. -Triptych panel
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Artist: Melchior Broederlam Title: Retable de Champmol, from the chapel of the Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon, France, installed 1399. Period: Style: Medium: Oil on wood, each wing 5' 5 and 3/4" x 4' 1 and 1/4". Description: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon. -This early example of oil painting reveals an attempt to represent the three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface, but the gold background and flat halos recall medieval pictorial conventions. |
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Artist: Jan van Eyck Title: Ghent Altarpiece (closed) Period: completed 1432 Style: Medium:Oil on wood, 11' 5" x 7' 6" Description: Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium -Monumental painted altarpieces were popular in 15th-century Flemish churches. Artists decorated both the interiors and exteriors of these hinged polyptychs, which often, as here, included donor portraits. |
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Artist: Jan van Eyck Title: Ghent Altarpiece (open) Period:completed 1432 Style: Medium:Oil on wood, 11' 5" x 15' 1" Description: Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium -In this sumptuous painting of salvation from the Original Sin of Adam and Eve, God the Father presides in majesty. Van Eyck rendered every figure, garment, and object with loving fidelity to appearance. |
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Artist: Jan Van Eyck Title: Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride Period: 1434 Style: Medium:Oil on wood, 2'9" x 1' 10 and 1/2" Description: National Gallery, London -Van Eyck played a major role in popularizing oil painting and in establishing portraiture as an important art form. In this portrait of an Italian financier and his wife, he also portrayed himself in the mirror. |
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Artist: Jan Van Eyck Title: Man in a Red Turban (self portrait) Period:1433 Style: Medium: Oil on wood, 1' 1 and 1/8" x 10 1/4" Description: National Gallery, London. -Man in a Red Turban seems to be the first Western painted portrait in a thousand years in which the sitter looks directly at the viewer. The inscribed frame suggests it is a self- portrait of Jan van Eyck. |
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Artist: Rogier van der Weyden (ca. 1400-1464) Title: Deposition, center panel of a triptych from Notre-Dame hors-les-murs, Louvain, Belgium Period: ca.1435 Style: Medium: Oil on wood, 7' 2 and 5/8" x 8' 7 and 1/8". Description: Museo del Prado, Madrid -Deposition resembles a relief carving in which the biblical figures act out a drama of passionate sorrow as if on a shallow theatrical stage. The emotional impact of the painting is unforgettable. |
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Artist: Rogier van der Weyden |
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Artist: Jan Van Eyck |
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Artist: Petrus Christus Title: A Goldsmith in His Shop Period: 1449 Style: Medium: Oil on wood, 3' 3"x 2' 10". Description: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Robert Lehman Collection, 1975) -Once thought to depict Eligius, the patron saint of goldsmiths, Christus’s painting, made for the Bruges goldsmiths’ guild chapel, is more likely a generic scene of a couple shopping for a wedding ring.
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Artist: Rogier van der Weyden Title: Portrait of a Lady Period: ca.1460 Style: Medium: Oil on panel, 1' 1 and 3/8" x 10 and 1/16" Description: National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (Andrew W. Mellon Collection). -Rogier van der Weyden won renown for his penetrating portrayals of character. The lowered eyes, tightly locked thin fingers, and fragile physique convey this unnamed lady’s reserved demeanor. |
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Artist: Dirk Bouts ca. 1415-1475 Title: Last Supper, center panel of the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament Period: Style: Medium: Oil on wood, 6'x5' Description: Saint Peter's Louvain, Belgium, 1464-1468. -One of the earliest Northern European paintings to employ single- vanishing-point perspective, this Last Supper includes four servants in Flemish attire, probably portraits of the altarpiece’s patrons. |
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Artist: Dirk Bouts ca. 1415-1475 Title: Last Supper, Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament Period: Style: Medium: Oil on wood, 6'x5' Description: Saint Peter's Louvain, Belgium, 1464-1468. - The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek, The Gathering of the Manna, Elijah in the Desert and The Feast of the Passover, are drawn from the Old Testament, and are more plainly narrative in character. They set small figures within vast natural landscapes. Only Elijah in the desert and the angel who bends over him with his enormous wings come anywhere near the monumental scale of the central panel. |
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Artist: Hugo van der Goes (ca. 1440-1482) Title: Portinari Altarpiece (open) from Sant'Egidio, Florence, Italy Period: ca. 1476 Style: Medium: Tempera and oil on wood, center panel 8' 3 and 1/2" x 10', each wing 8' 3 and 1/2" x 4' 7 and 1/2". Description: Galleria deli Ulffizi, Florence. -This altarpiece is a rare instance of the awarding of a major commission in Florence to a Flemish painter. The Italians admired the incredibly realistic details and Hugo’s brilliant portrayal of human character. |
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Artist: Hans Memling (ca. 1430-1494) |
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Artist: Limbourg Brothers (Pol, Jean, Herman) Title: January from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry Period:1413–1416 Style: Medium: Ink on vellum, 8 and 7/8" x 5 and 3/8". Description: Musée Condé, Chantilly - he sumptuous pictures in Les Très Riches Heures depict characteristic activities of each month and give unusual prominence to genre subjects, reflecting the increasing integration of religious and secular art |
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Artist: Limbourg Brothers (Pol, Jean, Herman) |
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Artist: Jean Fouquet Title: Melun Diptych. Étienne Chevalier and Saint Stephen (leftwing) Period: ca.1450. Style: Medium: Oil on wood, 3' 1/2" x 2' 9 and 1/2" Description: Gemäldegalerie, 22 Staatliche Museen, Berlin. -Fouquet’s meticulous representation of a pious kneeling donor with a standing patron saint recalls Flemish painting, as do the three-quarter stances and the sharp focus of the portraits. |
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Artist: Jean Fouquet Title: Melun Diptych. Virgin and Child (right wing) Period: ca. 1451. Style: Medium: Oil on wood, 3' 1 and 1/4" x 2' 9 and 1/2". Description: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp. -Fouquet’s meticulous representation of a pious kneeling donor with a standing patron saint recalls Flemish painting, as do the three-quarter stances and the sharp focus of the portraits. |
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Artist: Viett Stoss Title: Death and Assumption of the Virgin (wings open), altar of the Virgin Mary, church of Saint Mary, Kraków, Poland, Period:1477–1489 Style: Medium:Painted and gilded wood, central panel 23' 9" high. Description: -In this huge sculptured and painted altarpiece, Veit Stoss used every figural and ornamental element from the vocab- ulary of Gothic art to heighten the emotion and to glorify the sacred event. |
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Artist: Tilman Riemenschneider |
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Artist: Konrad Witz Title: Miraculous Draught of Fish, from the Altarpiece of Saint Peter, from the Chapel of Notre-Dame des Maccabées, Cathedral of Saint Peter, Geneva, Switzerland Period:1444 Style: Medium: Oil on wood 4' 3" x 5' 1" Description: Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva. - Konrad Witz set this Gospel episode on Lake Geneva.
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Artist: Michel Wolgemut and shop |
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Artist: Martin Schongauer |
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Artist: Hans Memling Title: Diptych of Maarten Nieuwenhove Period: Style: Medium:Oil on oak panel, 52 x 41,5 cm (each) Description:Memlingmuseum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges The left panel shows the Virgin and Child, while the right is the portrait of the donor Maarten van Nieuwenhove, a nobleman in Bruges. It is the only portrait diptych to survive intact. |
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