CAS AH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Champmol, Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece

• School: Boston University
• Department: History of Art & Architecture
• Course: CAS AH 112
• Professor: Fred Kleiner

Document Summary

The idea of the renaissance, ii: fifteenth-century art in northern europe. Claus sluter, well of moses, 1395-1406, chartreuse de champmol, dijon, france. The well of moses, a symbolic fountain of life made for the duke of burgundy, originally supported a crucifixion group. Sluter"s figures recall french gothic jamb statues but are far more realistic. Limbourg brothers, january and october from les tr s riches heures du duc de. Berry, 1413-16 depict characteristic activities of each month. The prominence of genre subjects reflects the increasing integration of religious and secular art. Campin was the leading painter of tournai and an early master of oil painting. In the m rode altarpiece, he set the annunciation in a flemish merchant"s home in which many objects have symbolic significance. Jan van eyck, ghent altarpiece, completed 1432, st. bavo cathedral, ghent, Monumental painted altarpieces were popular in flemish churches.