Rogier van der Weyden

Cimabue and Rogier van der Weyden’s works of art deal with the same subject matter and medium, but offer distinct perspectives and analysis to the viewer. Both paintings were created within 150 years of one another so the variances in visual composition of the paintings depict how rapidly art transformed. The Cimabue’s painting is a little earlier (completed in 1280) and van der Weyden’s painting was completed between 1435 and 1440, meaning that the visual elements and composition are varied…

meanings in the details of their paintings. An example of this would be in Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin by Rogier Van Der Weyden, on the armrests it depicts Adam, Eve, and the serpent, this is to represent Mary as the new Eve and Christ as the new Adam who will redeem humanity from sin (Kleiner, 554). One artist in particular who had an immense impact on this genre of art was Jan Van Eyck. Jan Van Eyck was one of the first…

Lorenzo de Medici, who assumed the control of his family in 1469, had founded the Platonic Academy of Philosophy. This family influenced Sandro Botticelli and Michelangelo. 3. How does the Deposition (fig. 19-4) by Rogier van der Weyden represent Northern European Renaissance painting? Rogier has given emphasis to the pathos and human feeling as an alternative that pervade his scene of Christ being lowered from the cross. 4. Describe the philosophical differences in the Japanese works…

Portinari Altarpiece Hugo van der Goes is credited with uniting the scholarly dexterity of Jan van Eyck and the sensitive feelings of Rogier van der Weyden, creating his own style of art. In Ghent, Hugo was the dean of the painters’ guild. An artisan guild was organized by occupation and exerted quality control of its members and administered education with an apprenticeship system. It was a master-apprentice system, where apprentices commonly finished the smaller details on a piece of work…

In the painting of Leonardo, oil paints were utilized for the colors. It had been used with much accomplishment for a considerable length of time by painters in northern Europe, for example, Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, who could catch detail on a tiny level and pass on a feeling of authenticity that was unattainable using different sorts of shade. Since oil paints had landed in Italy, Leonardo could use them to incredible preferred standpoint to make…

1) Albrecht Durer, Melancholia I, 1514, engraving. The expressive qualities of complexity, in this painting, are given by the combination of stippling, hatching, and crosshatching, they were also used to create texture and depth. Horizontal, diagonal and vertical lines are present in this painting associated with distance and the distant horizon. In this artwork, the artist used both, straight lines and contour lines, and a mixture of shades. I found that the areas that are clearer have very…

The materials used were also different. Northern Renaissance used oil paints on wood panel and the Italian Renaissance used tempera, oil and fresco. Examples of these differences are Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam from the Sistine Chapel and Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding…

inferred that the perspective may not accord with nature and that the background was added to the painting to suggest space. Hans Memling, a German-born artist who was apprenticed under Rogier van der Weyden and then moved to Brussels after his master died, pushed chiaroscuro further for different reasons than those of Jan van Eyck. Hans Memling was famous for his distinctive approach, for softening the contours of faces in order to…

During the Renaissance period of the 14th to 17th century, art and architecture between Northern Europe and Italy were both similar and different in many ways. From the detailed work of everyday life of the North to the Neoplatonic allegories of Italian work, the Renaissance was a time of transition and strength. The most dominant similarity between Northern European and Italian Renaissance artwork lies behind the meaning of humanism. During the Renaissance, there was “rebirth of culture”; a…

during that time period (Harbison). While I find the majority of those pieces extremely moving, I was extremely moved by Rogier Van Der Weyden’s “Descent from the cross” which depicts Jesus being lowered from the cross shortly after His death while being surrounded by His disciples and loved ones. While many of the works during this time depicted these deep and sorrowful events, Weyden portrayed the emotion of this event in a very strong manner that differs from the art at that time. Many…