Chapter 20

Piety, Passion & Politics

15th century art in Northern Europe

Terms

• Vanishing point- point on the horizon line where all points converge

• Patron-someone who commissions a painting

• Guild- an organization that represents tradesmen/craftsmen

• Engraving-printmaking method where you etch on a metal plate

Claus Sluter. Well of Moses, Dijon, France, 1395-1406

Melchior Broederlam, Annunciation and Visitation (right) and Presentation and Flight into Egypt (left), 1399

Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece, 1428 oil on wood

Detail of Merode Altarpiece

Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (closed), Belgium, 1432

Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (open), Belgium, 1432

Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434

Jan van Eyck, Man with a Red Turban , oil on wood, possibly a self-portrait, 1433

Rogier Van der Weyden, Deposition, Belgium, 1435

Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, 1435, oil and tempera on wood

Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady, 1460

Rogier Van der Weyden,Last Judgement Altarpiece, France, 1444-1448

Dirk Bouts, Last Supper, Belgium, 1464-1468

One, Two & Three Point Perspective

Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece, 1476

Limbourg Brothers, January (left) October (right), Les Tres Riches Heures de Duc de Berry, 1413-1416

Jean Fouquet, Etienne Chevalier and Saint Stephen, 1450

Veit Stoss, Death and Assumption of the Virgin, 1477-1489

Konrad Witz, Draught of Fish, Switzerland, 1444

Martin Schongauer, St. Anthony Tormented by Demons, 1480-1490