Visualizing Love in the Renaissance
Lecture 2: North of the Alps
Dr. Sunnie Evers
January 26, 2016
Sex, Money and Marriage: A Complicated Affair
Giotto, Last Judgment, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, 1303-06: commissioned by Enrico
Scrovegni to atone for his father’s sin of usury; dedicated to Virgin of Charity and
to the Virgin Annunciate; site of an annual mystery play of the Annunciation on
the feast day of the Annunciation, March 25th; commission shared with the
Cavalieri Guadenti, a confraternity dedicated to devotion of the Virgin Mary and
to the suppression of usury
Jean Pucelle, Book of Hours for Jeanne d’Evreux, 3rd wife of Charles IV of France,
1324-1328, Cloisters (MET), NY. Book for private devotion, 35/8” x 27/16”, 209
folios, 25 full page miniatures on vellum – paired images from the Infancy and
Passion of Christ and scenes of the life of Saint Louis. Upon her death in 1371,
Jeanne d’Evreux left the prayer book to King Charles V. At his death, the book
entered the collection of his brother Jean, Duke of Berry.
Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, London NGA
Chronicle of France (or St Denis), Jacques de Molay sentenced to the stake in 1314, 14th
century, British Library BL Royal MS 20 C vii f.48r.
14th century manuscript, Pope John XXII annulling the marriage of Charles the Fair and
Blanche of Burgundy, Bibliotheque Toulouse, MS0512, 345v
Jean Pucelle, Book of Hours for Jeanne d’Evreux
Annunciation/Betrayal
Flight into Egypt/Pieta
Ormesby Psalter, c. 1300, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 366.
Saint Pierre Abbey at Moissac, 12th century, south portal, luxuria
Church of the Magdalen, Vezeley, 12th century, nave historiated capital – lust
Ivory cover for mirror with scene of chess game, Paris, c. 1300, Louvre
Leonardo, Annunciation, 1472, Uffizi
Titian, Madonna of the Rabbit 1530, Louvre
Titian, Sacred and Profane Love, c. 1514, Borghese Gallery
Palma Vecchio, Venus and Cupid in a Landscape, c. 1515, Norton Simon
Jean Pucelle, Book of Hours for Jeanne d’Evreux
Visitation/Christ before Pilate
Jeanne Prays before St Louis/Chastisement of Saint Louis
St Louis feeds the Leper
Adoration of the Magi/Massacre of the Innocents
Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919, Private collection on loan to the Pompidou
Durer, Musical Satyr, 1505
Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait, 1434, London NGA
Rogier van der Weyden, Philip the Good Presented with a History of Hainault by the
author, flanked by his son Charles and his chancellor Nicolas Rolin, frontispiece
Chroniques de Hainaut, 1447-8
Petrus Christus, The Holy Family, 1460
Rogier van der Weyden, Annunciation, c. 1435
Jan van Eyck (attr), Birth of John the Baptist, Turin-Milan Hours
Master of the Cite des Dames, Christine de Pisan presenting her book to the queen
Isabeau of Bavaria, illuminated miniature from The Book of the Queen, British
Library, Harley 4431
Jean Le Tavernier, Jean Mielot presenting his translation of Traite de l’oraison
dominicale to Philip the Good, after 1457, Brussels, KBR, ms. 9092, f. 1.
David Aubert, Charles the Bold Surprising David Aubert, frontispiece, Histoire de
Charles Martel, before 1472, Brussels, KBR, ms. 8, fol. 7