This chapter explores Fifteenth Century Art in Northern Europe, which includes
altarpieces, manuscript illumination, textiles, architecture, sculpture and printmaking.
Becoming familiar with the art of Northern Europe will better prepare you to study
the contemporary Renaissance in Italy, the focus of our next chapter.
NOTE: Be prepared for some
REVIEW QUESTIONS on the Chapter Test.
TOPIC:
ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT
DOORS OF BISHOP BERNWARD
(pages 448-450)
We will be studying the Renaissance Art in Fifteenth Century Italy as our next topic.
Feel free to scan the pages in that section and take some notes in order to get a head
start.
DIAGRAMS:
Be able to label all parts of the largest Altars and Altarpieces diagram for READING QUIZ 47 (564)
TERMS:
Renaissance (562), atmospheric or aerial perspective (562), intuitive perspective
(562), diptych (564), triptych (564), polytych (564), predella (564), mensa (564),
matte (571), majolica (571), picture plane (573), crockets (585), woodcut (590),
intaglio (590)
Virtuoso:
Excellent technical skill, or one who possesses such skill
CONCEPTS TO KNOW:
Businesspeople in the E-R attained status via personal achievement, not hereditary aristocracy (561)
Know the major characteristics/artistic conventions of E-R art in northern Europe (562)
More artists’ names survive from the 15th century than the previous 14 centuries combined (562)
Know the major characteristics/artistic conventions of the International Gothic Style (562)
Know the “pros and cons” of oil paint versus tempera paint. Know where each was favored (571)
Know why Jan van Eyck sometimes falsely credited with “inventing” oil paint (he really didn’t) (571)
Know the characteristics of Flamboyant Architecture (585)
Understand the historical contribution of Johann Gutenberg (590)
Know that LINEAR, ONE-POINT, and MATHEMATICAL perspective all mean the same thing
Know that AERIAL and ATMOSPHERIC perspective both mean the same thing
LECTURE SLIDES:
TITLE
LOCATION/ARTIST
Map of Fifteenth-Century Northern Europe
Line Art
Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife*
Jan van Eyck
Art and its Contexts: Altars and Altarpieces
Line Art
YEAR
1434
Altarpiece at Tombs of Charles and Isabella
Altarpiece of the Chartreuse de Champmol (exterior of wings)
Annunciation, Visitation, Presentation and Flight
Chartreuse de Champmol: Annunciation, Visitation**
Melchoir Broederlam
1399
Melchoir Broederlam
1399
Chartreuse de Champmol: Presentation, Flight into Egypt* Melchoir Broederlam
1399
Chartreuse de Champmol: Well of Moses*
Claus Sluter
1395-1406
Page with Thamyris (Concerning Famous Women)
Giovanni Boccaccio
1402
February, Life in the Country (Très Riches Heures) *
Limbourg Brothers
1411-1416
January, the Duke of Berry at Table (Très Riches Heures)* Limbourg Brothers
1411-1416
October (Très Riches Heures)
Limbourg Brothers
1411-1416
Mary at Her Devotions (Hours of Mary of Burgundy)
Mary of Burgundy Painter
before 1482
Unicorn is Found at the Fountain (Hunt of the Unicorn tapestry series)
1495-1505
Cope of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Flemish
15th century
Clergy wearing copes
modern photograph
Mérode Altarpiece (open), Triptych of the Annunciation* Master of Flémalle
1425-1430
Man in a Red Turban*
Jan van Eyck
1433
Arnolfini Double Portrait**
Jan van Eyck
1434
Annunciation
Jan van Eyck
Ghent Altarpiece (closed), Annunciation with Donors*
Jan and Hubert(?) van Eyck
1432
Ghent Altarpiece (open), Adoration of Mystic Lamb*
Jan and Hubert(?) van Eyck
1432
Papal symbol (triple crown)
Line Art
War Triptych
Otto Dix
1929-1932
Deposition*
Rogier van der Weyden
1435-1438
The Last Judgment Altarpiece (closed)
Rogier van der Weyden
1445-1448
The Last Judgment Altarpiece (open)
Rogier van der Weyden
1445-1448
St. Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child*
Rogier van Der Weyden
1435-1440
Altar of the Three Queens, St. Columba, Cologne
Rogier van Der Weyden
1399-1464
Portrait of a Lady
Rogier van der Weyden
1455
Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts
1455-1460
Wrongful Execution of the Count (left part of diptych)
Dieric Bouts
1470-1475
Justice of Otto III (right part of diptych)
Dieric Bouts
1470-1475
A Goldsmith in his Shop
Petrus Christus
1449
Portinari Altarpiece (open)
left panel
Hugo van der Goes
1474-1476
Portinari Altarpiece (open)
central panel
Hugo van der Goes
1474-1476
Portinari Altarpiece (open)
right panel
Hugo van der Goes
1474-1476
Diptych of Maarten can Nieuwenhave
Hans Memling
1487
The Melun Diptych
Jean Fouquet
1452-1455
The Melun Diptych (Chevalier and St. Stephen)*
Jean Fouquet
1452-1455
The Melun Diptych (Virgin and Child)*
Jean Fouquet
1452-1455
Charles VII
Jean Fouquet
1444
Portrait of Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey
1490
Church of Saint-Maclou, Rouen, France*
Pierre Robin(?)
1432-1514
Normandy Parliament Building
Rouen, France
Interior Courtyard of Jacques Coeur House, Bourges, France
1443-1451
Plan of Jacques Coeur House, Bourges, France
Line Art
1443-1451
Jacques Coeur House, Bourges, France
Line Art
1443-1451
Iconostasis, Albi Cathedral
France
1292-1480
Miraculous Draft of Fishes*
Konrad Witz
1444
Annunciation
Konrad Witz
1440
Saint Catherine with Mary Magdalene
Konrad Witz
St. Wolfgang Altarpiece
Michael Pacher
1471-1481
Buxheim St. Christopher*
German
15th century
Technique: Woodcuts and Engravings on Metal
Line Art
Demons Tormenting St. Anthony*
Martin Schongauer
1480-1490
Carrying the Cross
Martin Schongauer
1474
Engraving of an Elephant
Martin Schongauer
The City of Nuremberg (Nuremberg Chronicle)
Wolgemut & Pleydenwurff
*possibly a slide identification question. Know the title and location/artist.
**Know the title, artist and YEAR.
1493