Paintings

Front 1

Claus Sluter

Well of Moses

Back 1

Front 2

Melchior Broerderlam

Retable de Champmol

Back 2

Hint 2

-depict the Annunciation and Visitation on theleft panel

-thePresentation in the Temple and Flight into Egypt on the right panel.

- foreshadowed the widespread adoption of oil paints

Front 3

Robert Campin

Merode Altarpiece

- Annuncation scene

Back 3

Hint 3

-Artists often presented biblical scenes astaking place in a Flemish house

- Dress, towel, fire screen, bench symbolizes the vigrins purity

- Right panel, joseph making mousetrap (jesus catch devil)

- roses show virgins humility

Front 4

Jan Van Eyck

Ghent Altarpiece

Back 4

Hint 4

- Jan was the court painter of Philip the Good,duke of Burgundy, in 15th century.

- Upper=old testament prophets

-Middle= Annunciation

-Lower= Donor portraits

Front 5

Jan Van Eyck

Arnolfini and his Bride

Back 5

Hint 5

- Secular portrait

- making vows, little dog symbolizes fidelity

- self portrait in mirror

Front 6

Jan Van Eyck

Man in a Red Turban

Back 6

Hint 6

- looking right at painter

- Self portrait

Front 7

Rogier Van Der Weyden

Deposition

Back 7

Hint 7

- mary + jesus same pose

- best representation of agony

Front 8

Rogier Van Der Weyden

St.Luke drawing the virgin

Back 8

Hint 8

- st.luke= 1st christian painter

- believed to be slef portrait of Rogier

- ox identifies it is st.luke

Front 9

Rogier Van Der Weyden

Portrait of a Lady

Back 9

Hint 9

- shows fragility

Front 10

Petrus Christus

A goldsmith in His Shop

- portrays saint eligius

Back 10

Hint 10

- Saint Eligius

- Brides girdle symbol of chasity

- pretty generic

Front 11

Dirk Bouts

Last Supper

Back 11

Hint 11

- 1st use of singular vanishing point

- increased complexity by adding servants

Front 12

Hugo Van Der Goes

Portinari Altarpiece

Back 12

Hint 12

- Central panel= adoration of the shepards

- 15 angels show 15 joys of mary

Front 13

Hans Memling

St.John Altarpiece

The composition is balanced and serene,the colorsparkling and luminous,and the execution of the highest technical quality , all 15th century flemish qualities

Back 13

Hint 13

- center panel= virgin with saints and angels

- to the left and right or mary is saint john the baptist+evangelist

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Front 14

Limbourg Brothers

Book of Hours

Back 14

Hint 14

- Expanded the illusionist capabilities of illumination

- semi circles show the chariot of the sun as it makes its cycle through the 12 months and zodiac signs

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Front 15

Jean Fouquet

Melun Diptych

Back 15

Front 16

Veit Stoss

Krakow Altarpiece

Back 16

Hint 16

- Death and Assumption of the Virgin

-Recalls late gothic architeture

Front 17

Tilman Riemenscheider

Creglingen Altarpiece

Back 17

Hint 17

- The Assumption

Front 18

Konrad Witz

St.Peter altarpiece (miraculous Draught of Fish)

Back 18

Hint 18

- background So accurate was traced back to shores of geneva

Front 19

Michel Wolgemut

Nuremberg Chronicle

Back 19

Front 20

Martin Schongauer

Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons (metal engraving)

Back 20

Hint 20

- Metal engraving

- hollows of the design, rather than ridges, take the ink

- reverse of woodcut

Front 21

Nicola Pisano

Puplit of the Bapistry

Classical elements include:Corinthian capitals, Rounded arches, Relief sculpture

Back 21

Hint 21

· Baptistery pulpit retains manymedieval design elements. For example the trefoil arches and the lionsupporting columns, but the panels draw on ancient Rome sarcophagus reliefs

Front 22

Bonaventura Berlinghieri

Saint Francis Altarpiece

- leading painter in italo byzantine style

13th-14th century renaissance

Back 22

Hint 22

- Timeline of Saint Francis' life

Front 23

Cimabue

Madonna Enthroned with Angels and Prophets

Back 23

Hint 23

- One of the first artist to break away from the Italo-Byzantine style He relied on Byzantine models. Cimabue depicted the Madonna's massive throne as receding into space

Front 24

Giotto (deplaced the byzantine style)

Madonna Enthroned

Back 24

Hint 24

· Giottois considered the first Renaissance painter

- Giottoaimed to construct a figure that has substance, dimensionality and bulk-qualities suppressed in favor of a spiritual immateriality in Byzantine andItalo-Byzantine art

Front 25

Giotto

Lamentation

Back 25

Front 26

Duccio

MAESTA

- saints of siena kneeling at marys feet

-59 narrative scenes for the maesta

-The back is subdivided into 26 compartments that illustrate the Passion of Christ

Back 26

Hint 26

- Represents Sinese art in its supremeachievement

Front 27

Duccio

Betrayal of Jesus

Back 27

Front 28

Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi

Annunciation altarpiece from Siena cathedral

Back 28

Front 29

Duccio

MAESTA (back) (Birth of the Virgin)

Back 29

Front 30

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Peaceful City

Back 30

Front 31

Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Peaceful Country

Back 31

Front 32

Lorenzo Maitani

Orvieto Cathedral

Back 32

Front 33

Merovingian Fibulae

fastens garments

Back 33

Front 34

Stave Church, Urnes

Back 34

Hint 34

-shows hiberno saxton art of infusing nature

Front 35

Book of Durrow

Back 35

Hint 35

- each had a coverpage for each evangelist (matthew is shown)

Front 36

Saint Matthew

Back 36

Tax collector

Winged man or angel

Gospel opens with a description of the ancestry of Christ

Front 37

Saint Mark

Back 37

first bishop of Alexandria in Egypt

Symbol is the lion, king of the desert

Front 38

Saint Luke

Back 38

Disciple of saint Paul

Painter

Symbol is the ox

Front 39

Saint John

Back 39

Most important apostle

sat next to Jesus at the last supper and ws present at the crucifixion, lamentation, and transfiguration.

Author of apocalypse

Symbol is the Eagle

Front 40

Lindisfarne Gospels

Saint Matthew

Back 40

Hint 40

- marriage between christian imagery and animal- interlace style

- Made 3D 2D

Front 41

Book of Kells

Back 41

Hint 41

-Greatest achievement of hiberno saxon art

Front 42

Coronation gospel

Back 42

Hint 42

- used shading instead of lines- classical painting style was one of Charlemagne's many components for Carolingian art.

Front 43

Ebbo Gospel

Back 43

Hint 43

-Of Saint Matthew- Merged classical illusionism and northern linear tradition

Front 44

Utrecht Psalter

Back 44

Hint 44

-wanted the book to appear ancient- has a nervous vitality

-acting out king davids psalms

Front 45

Hildesheim Doors

Back 45

Hint 45

- left is the book of Gensis (adams and eve)

-Right is the life of christ-(story of original sin and ultimate redemption)

Front 46

Hildesheim Column

Back 46

Hint 46

- ottonian art- 7 spirals in 24 scenes that tell christs life

Front 47

Uta Codex

Made by Uta (WOMAN)

Back 47

Hint 47

Shows the important role women could play in religious life and as patrons of the arts during the early middle ages

Front 48

Rainer of Huy

Back 48

Front 49

Saint Alexander, Stavelot Abbey

Back 49

Hint 49

combination of an idealized classical head with Byzantine-style enamels underscores the stylistic diversity of Romanesque art

Front 50

Bayeux Tapestry, Bayeux Cathedral, France

Funeral procession to Westminster Abbey (top) and Battle of Hastings (bottom)

Back 50

Front 51

Master Hugo, the Bury Bible, Saint Edmunds England

Back 51

Hint 51

- (top) moses and aaron proclaiming the law of the israelites- (bottom) moses pointing out the clean and unclean beasts

Front 52

Eadwine the Scribe, Eadwine Psalter

Back 52

Hint 52

- Rare portrayal of the artists in romanesque times

Front 53

Virgin and the Child and angels, Chartres

Back 53

Hint 53

- Survived the fire-Grid of iron bands=early gothic

Front 54

God as Architect of the World, Paris

Back 54

Hint 54

- This artist portrayed God as an industrious architectcreating the universe using the same tools as Gothic builders.

Front 55

Villard De Honnecourt, Paris

Back 55

Hint 55

-sought to demonstrate that simple geometric shapesare the basis of both natural forms and buildings.

Front 56

Blanche of Castille, Louis IX, Paris

-this royal bookdepicts Saint Louis,his mother Blancheof Castile, andtwo monks.

Back 56

Front 57

Psalter of Saint Louis

Back 57

Hint 57

- The colors emulate thoseof stained glass.- Abraham and the three angels- (left) Abraham greets the angels- (right) Abraham entertains the angels while his wife Sarah peers at them from a tent.

Front 58

Nicholas of Verdun, sacrifice of Isaac

Back 58

Front 59

Nicholas of Verdun, Shrine of the Three Kings, Cologne Cathedral

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Back 59

Hint 59

contains relics of the three magi- Gave Colognes Archbishops the right to crow German Kings

Front 60

Giovanni Pisano, Annucation, Nativity,and the adoration of the Shepards. San't Andrea, Italy

Back 60

Front 61

Nicola Pisano, Annunciation, Nativity, the adoration of the shepards. San't Andrea, Italy

Back 61

Front 62

Francesco or Buonamico, Triumph of Death

Back 62

Hint 62

-fresco captures the horrors of death and forces viewers to confront their mortality- Left shows the inevitability of death while right shows ignoring reality .

Front 63

Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altar Piece open.

Back 63

Hint 63

- salvation from the Original Sin of Adam and Eve and humanities redemption through christ.- To the right of god= mary- Left of God= Saint John- Shows God's infinite generosity-The altarpiece celebrates thewhole Christian cycle from the Fall to the Redemption, presentingthe Church triumphant in heavenly Jerusalem.