Arts 150 1st Edition Lecture 15 Outline of Current Lecture I Northern Europe Renaissance Current Lecture Types of Art in Northern Europe in 1400s o Manuscript illuminations o After 1420 panel paintings 3 Types of panel painting in the North o Devotional panels o Multiwinged altarpieces o Portraiture What is an illuminated manuscript o A painting on paper or parchment used as illustration decoration for manuscripts or albums usually done in rich colors and often supplemented with gold Les Tres Riches Heures du Dul de Berry The Limbourg Brothers 1412 1416 o Included monthly pages o Integrated text with art one of the first of its kind to do that o Paul Hannequin and Hermes were the Limbourg brothers names o Often formal pictures in book of prayers o One of the most famous French illuminated manuscripts o The book is a book of hours or a Christian devotional book o Made for the Duke of Berry o Contained ecclesiastic lunar calendar determining the month and day above each image What was a book of hours o A selection of prayers and readings for daily prayer and meditation including a calendar of holy days Mary of Burgundy at Prayer by the Master of Mary of Burgundy 1480 o Manuscript illumination from the book of hours of Mary of Burgundy The Limbourg Brothers February Page o Developed detailed fore middle and background Robert Campin The Merode Altarpiece triptych Annunciation Kneeling donors Joseph in his carpentry shop 1425 1428 o Oil on wood panel major media in Northern Renaissance These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute o Center panel depicts regular middle class Flemish house Towels and bench ect every item symbolized the virgin s purity or held religious symbolism o BOOK The Waning of the Middle Ages by Dutch Art History Huizinga study of the forms of life thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Huizinga described the symbolism and left a commentary on Campin s painting o Campin s work compared to Fra Angelico s
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