Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

Presentation in the Templeand Flight into Egypton the right panel (see “The Life of Jesus in Art,” Chapter 11, pages 296–297, or ...

Burgundy and Flanders 523 T he generic words “paint” and “pigment” encompass a wide range of substances artists have used over t ...

panel. In the uppermost arched panels, van Eyck depicted im- ages of the Old Testament prophets Zachariah and Micah, along with ...

candle burning in the left rear holder of the ornate chandelier and the mirror, in which the viewer sees the entire room reflect ...

paint the likeness of a prospective bride or groom. When young King Charles VI (r. 1380–1422) of France sought a bride, a painte ...

ROGIER VAN DER WEYDENWhen Jan van Eyck received the commission for the Ghent Altarpiece,Rogier van der Weyden (ca. 1400–1464) wa ...

SAINT LUKESlightly later in date is Rogier’s Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin(FIG. 20-9), probably painted for the Guild of Saint L ...

page 412). The carved armrest of the Virgin’s bench depicts Adam, Eve, and the serpent, reminding the viewer that Mary is the ne ...

More recent scholarship has argued that this painting, although not devoid of religious content, should be seen in the context o ...

After Portinari placed his altarpiece in the family chapel in the Florentine church of Sant’Egidio, it created a considerable st ...

angels, one playing a musical instrument and the other holding a book, flank the Virgin. To the sides of Mary’s throne stand Sai ...

Hours of the Duke of Berry).A Book of Hours,like a breviary,was a book used for reciting prayers (see “Medieval Books,” Chapter ...

Panel Painting Images for private devotional use were popular in France, as in Flan- ders, and the preferred medium was oil pain ...

sacred event. In the Kraków altarpiece, the disciples of Christ con- gregate around the Virgin, who sinks down in death. One of ...

Panel Painting As in Flanders, large-scale altarpieces featuring naturalistically painted biblical themes were familiar sights i ...

Holy Roman Empire 537 W ith the invention of movable type in the 15th century and the new widespread availability of paper from ...

castle on the hill. Despite the numerous architectural structures, his- torians cannot determine whether this illustration repre ...

BURGUNDY AND FLANDERS ❚The most powerful rulers north of the Alps during the first three-quarters of the 15th century were the d ...

21-1Piero della Francesca, detail ofFlagellation of Christ (FIG. 21-43), ca. 1455–1465. Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino. ...

T he humanism that Petrarch and Boccaccio promoted during the 14th century (see Chapter 19) fully blossomed in the 15th century. ...