ART 232 Unit 1 Ch 19

The Renaissance is separated into what two sections?

Italian Renaissance in Southern Europe

Northern Renaissance in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands

What was the Northern Renaissance famous for?

1. advanced oil painting techniques

2. realistic

3. portraiture

4. woodcuts and other forms of printmaking

What types of altarpieces are there?

diptych, triptych, and winged triptych altarpiece

International Gothic Style

1. Burgundy France and Northern Italy

2. Time Period - late 14th and 15th centuries

3. Art of the royal courts, inspired by kinds and high level patrons within the church

4. rich color and decoration and extreme detail, often shown in illuminated manuscripts

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International Gothic Style, Melchior Broederlam, Annunciation, Visitation, Presentation in the Temple and Flight Into Egypt, Exterior of the wings of the altarpiece of the Chartreuse

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International Gothic Style, Paul, Herma, and Jean Limbourg, February: Life in the Country, Tres Riches Heures 1411-1416

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International Gothic Style, Paul, Herma, and Jean Limbourg, January: The Duke of Berry at Table, Tres Riches Heures 1411-1416

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International Gothic Style, Mary of Burgundy Painter, Mary at Her Devotions, Hours of Mary of Burgundy, before 1482

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Early Northern Renaissance, Claus Sluter, The Well of Moses, Detail of Moses and David 1395-1406

The Northern Renaissance (1325-1600)

1. England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain

2. Art called flemish → mostly in Flanders region (Northern Belgium)

3. Rebirth of Ancient Greek and Roman Culture

What are characteristics of Northern Renaissance art?

• focus on details and color

• realism, naturalism landscapes

• religious iconography

• printing invented

• books more available and less expensive

What are the different art forms that happened during the Northern Renaissance?

• painting, sculpture, printmaking

• population interest in literacy

• discoveries published

• human rights innovations

• people questions political structure and religious practices

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art), Unicorn is Found at the Fountain From the Hunt of the Unicorn Tapestry Series c, 1495-1505

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art) Cope of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Flemish Mid 15th Century

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art) Workshop of the Master of Flemalle, Mérode Altarpiece (Triptych of the Annunciation) (Open) c. 1425-1430s

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art) Jan Van Eyck, Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife 1434

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art) Jan Van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban 1433

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art) Jan and Hubert (?) Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (Closed) Annunciation with Donors

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art), Rogier van der Weyden, Deposition, from an altarpiece commissioned by the crossbowman’s guild, Louvian, Belgium

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art) Rogier van der Weyden, St. Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child, c. 1435-1440

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art) Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in His Shop 1449

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art) Dieric Bouts, Virgin and Child c. 1455-1460

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Northern Renaissance (Flemish Art) Jean Fouquet Etienne, Chevalier and St. Stephen, Virgin and Child c. 1452-55

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Northern Renaissance (French Art) Jean Hey (The Master of Moulins) Portrait of Margaret of Austria c. 1490

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Late Gothic Flamboyant Style, Pierre Robin (?) Church of Saint-Maclou, Rouen, Normandy France 1432-1521

What types of printmaking are there?

Woodcuts (relief)

Engravings (intaglio)

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Northern Renaissance, The Buxheim St. Christopher, mid 15th century

What are the steps in the development of the book

1. handwritten books

2. first printed books in 1400s were a wooden block per page

3. 1450s Gutenburg invented moveable type

4. 40 copies of Bible still exist from 1455

5. 1465 printer in Italy

6. 1470 presses in France, Flanders, Holland, and Spain

7. Woodcuts often hand-painted w/ color

8. Bibliophile - one who loves books

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Northern Renaissance (German Art) Martin Shongauer, The Temptations of St. Anthony, c. 1470-1480

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Michael Wolgemut, Wilhelm Pleydenwurff, and workshop, The City of Nuremberg