Gardner Chapter 20

15th Century Art in Northern Europe & Spain
(revised 8/08)
VOCABULARY AND IMAGES
Illuminated manuscript
International Style
Printmaking
Relief
     woodcut
Intaglio
     engraving

Altarpiece
     diptych
     triptych
     polyptych   

tempera paint
oil paint
glazing technique

FLANDERS
 
Claus Sluter
Well of Moses, Chartreuse de Champmol, 1395-1406
     http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/s/sluter/moses/index.html

Melchior Broederlam

Retable de Champmol (Annunciation, Visitation, presentation, Flight into Egypt), Chartreuse de Champmol, c. 1399 
     http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/b/b-14.htm#broederlam

Robert Campin (1406; d. 1444); Master of Flémalle 

Merode Altarpiece (Triptich of the Annunciation), c. 1425-28 
       http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/campin_ext.html

Jan van Eyck (c. 1370/90-1441) 

*Ghent Altarpiece, Cathedral of Saint-Bavo, Ghent, Flanders, 1432 (oil/panel)
        http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/eyck/ghent/index.html

*Man in Red Turban, 1433  (oil/panel) 
        http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/eyck/p-eyck12.htm

*Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini (?) and His Wife, Giovanna Cenami (?), 1434 (oil/panel) 

http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/WebMedia/Images/18/NG186/eNG186.jpg

Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1399-1464)

*Deposition, c. 1435 (oil/panel) 
        http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/weyden/p-weyden7.htm

Dirk Bouts

Last Supper, 1464-68 (oil/wood)
     http://sunsite.dk/cgfa/bouts/p-bouts4.htm

Hugo van der Goes (c. 1440-82) 

Portinari Altarpiece (open), c. 1474-46 (Tempera, oil/panel) 
          http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/g/goes/index.html

FRENCH COURT - EARLY RENAISSANCE (1400-50)

Limbourg Brothers (active c. 1390-1420)  INTERNATIONAL STYLE 
*Tres Riches Heures (January and October Pages), 1413-16 
      http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/l/limbourg/index.html 
      http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/ 
Jean Fouquet (c. 1420-c. 1481) 
Melun Diptych: Etienne Chevalier & St. Stephen (left; c. 1450); 
  (Virgin & Child,right; c. 1451) 
      http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/fouquet/p-fouquet2.htm 
      http://sunsite.auc.dk/cgfa/fouquet/p-fouquet3.htm
 

GERMANY
Konrad Witz (documented 1434; d. 1336) 
Miraculous Draft of Fish, 1444 
        http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/w/witz/index.html

Martin Schongauer (c. 1450-1491) 

*Temptation of St. Anthony, engraving, c. 1480-90 
        http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/s/schongau/graphics/index.html

Tilman Riemenschneider

The Assumption of the Virgin; center panel of the Creglingen Altarpiece, Creglingen, Germany, c. 1495-99
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/r/riemensc/index.html

 
CHAPTER REVIEW QUESTIONS
1.  Describe the traits of the International Style in the Limbourg Brother's Tres Riches Heures manuscript illuminations (fig. 20-15 & 16)?

2.  Describe traits of the 15th-century Northern Renaissance style in Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait (fig. 20-1) and Rogier van der Weyden’s Deposition (fig. 20-8).

3.  Discuss Konrad Witz's Miraculous Draft of Fish (fig. 20-20) in the context of northern realism.

4.  Define the intaglio process of printmaking?  How is an engraving created?

5.  Describe the "glazing technique" in the use of oil painting. What did it allow the artist to achieve?