A History of European Art

There are many symbols that could support the idea of a marriage, but they also can support the view that the painting is a symb ...

Lecture 14: Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance Art Our next image shows a detail of the donors with St. John the Baptist and ...

Adam and Eve, shown after the Fall, represent sinful mankind, and they look toward the enthroned Lord, À anked by Mary and John, ...

Lecture 14: Jan van Eyck and Northern Renaissance Art The center panel and largest painting is the Adoration of the Lamb. Set in ...

Harbison, The Mirror of the Artist. Snyder, Northern Renaissance Art. How does Jan van Eyck’s work differ from the Italian Rena ...

Lecture 15: Northern Renaissance Altarpieces Northern Renaissance Altarpieces .................................................. ...

without breaking it, signifying the perpetual virginity of Mary. Everything in the room can be read symbolically, but we also ar ...

Lecture 15: Northern Renaissance Altarpieces arti¿ cial situation, suggesting painted sculpture that has come to life. The angui ...

damned are on Christ’s left. Above them are the ¿ gures of the apostles, the Pope, Philip the Good, Rolin and his wife, the Virg ...

Lecture 15: Northern Renaissance Altarpieces vestment, on the edge of which is embroidered the words Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus. ...

Hugo van der Goes: Adoration of the Shepherds, c. 1480, oil on panel, 3’ 2 ¼” x 8’ (99 x 240 cm), Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, German ...

Lecture 16: Piero della Francesca in Arezzo Piero della Francesca in Arezzo .................................................... ...

Arezzo is a provincial town about 40 miles from Florence, which would seldom be visited by modern tourists were it not for the i ...

Lecture 16: Piero della Francesca in Arezzo staff. On the left side is a severely damaged scene in which Adam has died. His son, ...

him to have a battle standard made with the sign of the cross. Constantine triumphed in the historic battle at the Milvian Bridg ...

Lecture 16: Piero della Francesca in Arezzo and spring are both pictured in the landscape, which is symbolic of the Resurrection ...

Sandro Botticelli.............................................................................. Lecture 17 Botticelli was very p ...

Lecture 17: Sandro Botticelli Two of Botticelli’s most famous paintings were commissioned by the same secondary branch of the Me ...

the stable, set within the old pagan order, which will crumble. Note the extraordinary range of colors in this painting. Althoug ...

Lecture 17: Sandro Botticelli the niches, the one directly above the innocent man resembles Donatello’s St. George, a defender o ...