Section 12a: Early Renaissance (Outside Italy) (p. 305-318)


How did Humanists affect the style of painting beginning in the Renaissance?

The Merode Altarpiece is a classic example of the "steep perspective" used by Northern Renaissance painters. What do you think this means?

Describe and explain the story behind Van Eyck's Arnolfini and His Wife.

Before the 15th century, how did most women learn to become artists?  What type of art did they often specialize in?

Explain in your own words how the people in Early Renaissance painting are much more evolved than in Gothic.

Why are there so few royal tapestries left from the Early Renaissance today?

How is a woodcut print different from an engraving (or intaglio) method?

 

Terms To Know

triptych
matte
opaque
translucent
Flemish
Deposition
intaglio
 

 

 

Artwork to remember

Limbourg Brothers, Tres Riches Heures
(1413-1416)
Jan Van Eyck, Arnolfini & His Wife,
Oil on panel 1434.
Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in His Shop, 1449.
Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece (1425-1428) The Unicorn is Found Tapestry (1498-1500)
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Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Battle of the Nudes, 1465
 
Hugo Van Der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece 1474-1476 Rogier Van Der Weyden, Deposition, 1442.