Gardner’s Art Through the Ages,
Chapter 20
Piety, Passion, and Politics:
15th Century Art in Northern Europe and Spain
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Figure 20-1 Limbourg brothers (Pol, Hennequin, Herman), May, from
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413–1416. Ink on vellum,
approx. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Musée Condé, Chantilly.
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Figure 20-1 Limbourg brothers (Pol, Hennequin, Herman), January (left),
October (right), from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413–
1416. Ink on vellum, approx. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". Musée Condé, Chantilly.
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15th Century Flemish Art – The Burgundian Netherlands
Figure 20-2 CLAUS SLUTER, Well of Moses,
Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon, France, 1395–
1406. Limestone with traces of paint, figures
approx. 6’ high.
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Figure 20-4 JAN VAN EYCK, Ghent Altarpiece (closed), Saint
Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Oil on wood,
approx. 11’ 6" x 7’ 6".
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Figure 20-5 JAN VAN EYCK, Ghent Altarpiece (open), Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Oil on wood, approx. 11’ 6" x 15’.
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Figure 20-6 ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Deposition, from Notre-Dame hors-les-murs, Louvain, Belgium, ca. 1435. Oil on wood, approx. 7’ 3"
x 8’ 7". Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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Figure 20-7 ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Last Judgment Altarpiece (open), Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune, France, ca. 1444–1448.
Panel, 7’ 4 5/8” x 17’ 11”. Musée de l’Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune.
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Figure 20-8 DIRK BOUTS, Last Supper
(central panel of the Altarpiece of the Holy
Sacrament), Saint Peter’s, Louvain, Belgium,
1464–1468. Oil on wood, approx. 6’ x 5’.
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Figure 20-9 HUGO VAN DER GOES, Portinari Altarpiece (open), from Sant’Egidio, Florence, Italy, ca. 1476. Tempera and oil on wood, 8’ 3 1/2"
x 10’ (center panel), 8’ 3 1/2" x 4’ 7 1/2" (each wing). Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
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Figure 20-10 HANS MENLING, Virgin with Saints and Angels, center panel of the Saint John Altarpiece, Hospitaal Sint Jan, Bruges, Belgium, 1479.
Oil on wood, approx. 5’ 7 3/4" x 5’ 7 3/4" (center panel), 5’ 7 3/4" x 2’ 7 1/8" (each wing).
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Figure 20-11 ROBERT CAMPIN (Master of Flémalle), Mérode Altarpiece (open), The Annunciation (center panel), ca. 1425–1428. Oil on wood,
center panel approx. 2’ 1” x 2’ 1”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Cloisters Collection, 1956).
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Figure 20-12 JAN VAN EYCK, Giovanni Arnolfini and
His Bride, 1434. Oil on wood, approx. 2’ 8" x 1’ 11 1/2".
National Gallery, London.
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Figure 20-15 JAN VAN EYCK, Man in a Red
Turban, 1433. Oil on wood, approx. 10 1/4" x 7 1/2".
National Gallery, London.
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Figure 20-17 HIERONYMUS BOSCH, Garden of Earthly Delights. Creation of Eve (left wing), Garden of Earthly Delights (central panel), Hell
(right wing), 1505–1510. Oil on wood, center panel 7’ 2 5/8" x 6’ 4 3/4". Museo del Prado, Madrid.
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Figure 20-20 STEPHAN LOCHNER, Madonna in
the Rose Garden, ca. 1430–1435. Tempera on wood,
approx. 1’ 8" x 1’ 4". Wallraf-Richartz Museum,
Cologne.
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Figure 20-26 MARTIN SCHONGAUER, Saint
Anthony Tormented by Demons, ca. 1480–1490.
Engraving, approx. 1’ 1" x 11". Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York (Rogers Fund, 1920).
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