01:082:214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Polyptych, Triptych, Hugo Van Der Goes
23 Feb 2017
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Van der goes worked for the burgundian court, the city of ghent, and wealthy merchants like. Tommaso portinari, but in his later life, he joined a monastic community, and even tried to commit suicide, perhaps because he worried he could never equal the ghent altarpiece. Van gogh knew about him and recognized the parallels between their lives. Whereas van der goes introduced a revolutionary realism into art, influencing later northern and italian painters, bosch is renowned for his fantastical creations. Back of panels painte bc can be closed. Looking at message hoping to protect & cure them, afterlife. Baby christ on ground, everyone is worshipping him, including outside panels. Donors & patron saints, not in same space but looking in. Mary has book: seriousness, absorption, reading holy text, revealing her & son fate. Angels in elaborate robes like priests (ritually) Vases of flowers, stocks of hay: symbolic red= christ blood, passion, life & death, white= virgin, purity.
