ARTHIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Oil Painting, Yolk, Jan Van Eyck
30 Jan 2017
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Week 3: art and social context in 15th-century northern & A growing interest in ancient greece and rome during renaissance. Flanders, a northern europe area on the border of belgium. Was a prosperous society, the most important city was bruges. The primary desire in flanders was to produce and acquire works of art that connected with the every day life of the flemish. It was a diptych, that is a writing tablet that has two panels side by side. A precise approach and attentiveness to detail are key aspects of naturalism. Memling achieves the sense of the real by positioning the figures on two paintings as part of the same continuous space. Triptych a three part work, where the outer wings are hinged and can be folded to the senator painting. Attribution, the artist to whom the work is assigned. The holy figures are placed in a typical habitat of the.
