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Chapter 20
Piety, Passion & Politics
15th century art in Northern Europe
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Terms
• Vanishing point- point on the horizon line where all points converge
• Patron-someone who commissions a painting
• Guild- an organization that represents tradesmen/craftsmen
• Engraving-printmaking method where you etch on a metal plate
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Claus Sluter. Well of Moses, Dijon, France, 1395-1406
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Melchior Broederlam, Annunciation and Visitation (right) and Presentation and Flight into Egypt (left), 1399
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Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece, 1428 oil on wood
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Detail of Merode Altarpiece
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Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (closed), Belgium, 1432
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Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (open), Belgium, 1432
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Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434
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Jan van Eyck, Man with a Red Turban , oil on wood, possibly a self-portrait, 1433
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Rogier Van der Weyden, Deposition, Belgium, 1435
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Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, 1435, oil and tempera on wood
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Rogier van der Weyden, Portrait of a Lady, 1460
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Rogier Van der Weyden,Last Judgement Altarpiece, France, 1444-1448
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Dirk Bouts, Last Supper, Belgium, 1464-1468
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One, Two & Three Point Perspective
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Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece, 1476
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Limbourg Brothers, January (left) October (right), Les Tres Riches Heures de Duc de Berry, 1413-1416
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Jean Fouquet, Etienne Chevalier and Saint Stephen, 1450
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Veit Stoss, Death and Assumption of the Virgin, 1477-1489
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Konrad Witz, Draught of Fish, Switzerland, 1444
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Martin Schongauer, St. Anthony Tormented by Demons, 1480-1490