FAH101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 216-249: Rogier Van Der Weyden, Champmol, Jan Van Eyck
28 Oct 2016
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Flanders enjoyed widespread prosperity: successful merchants, craft guilds joined the clergy and royalty in commissioning artists to produce works for public and private displays. Painted saint luke drawing the virgin (c. 1435-1440: emblematic of 15th century flemish painting in aiming to record every detail of a scene, painting"s detail with symbolic significance. 14th and 15th century: plague war and social upheaval. Duke phillip the good: ruled burgandy. Phillip the bold: married daughter of the count of flanders, acquired territory in the netherlands. Chartreuse de champmol: a charter house, a carthusian monastery. Monks who devoted their lives to solitary living and prayer. Robert campin: highly skilled practitioner of oil painting, with oils, painters could create richer colours, giving it intense tonality, glowing light, and glistening surfaces. Jan van eyck: first netherlandish painter to acheive international fame, philip the good"s court painter. Giovanni arnolfini: memorialize themselves to establish identities, ranks, arnoflini giving privileges to his wife to conduct business in his absence.
