ARTHI 6B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, Bavo Of Ghent
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In flanders, robert campin, jan van eyck, and rogier van der weyden use oil paints to record exact surface appearance of objects, fabrics and faces. North has a wetter climate so invented oil painting to keep shape of artwork: flemish painters establish portraiture as a major art form, german graphic artists pioneer woodcut printing, make art affordable to the masses. Robert campin (master of flemalle), merode altarpiece (open), the annunciation (center panel), ca. Oil on wood: annunciation of mary: archangel gabriel announces to virgin mary that she"ll miraculously conceive and give birth to god"s son, jesus. Patron on the left, mary in the middle, joseph (mary"s husband) in carpenter shop on the right. Very small altarpiece; at metropolitan museum of art: tournai burgundian netherlands (what"s today parts of france, belgium, germany, the. Flemish- rogier van der weyden, saint luke dreaming the virgin, ca. Commissioned in brussels for the city"s artists" guild (the.
