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Tag Archives: Northern Renaissance Art
GUILTY and SATISFIED: Just Above Paradise
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit. … There was a fascination with the world for its own sake , as a visual phenomenon, that was allied … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Craig Harbison, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Edwin Hall, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Hubert van Eyck, Irwin Panofsky, James Snyder, Jan van Eyck, Kim Woods, Laura Gelfand, Linda Seidel, Northern Renaissance Art, Pacht, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Peter Vroom, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Susan Jones Caldwell College, suzie nash, The Lost Dutchman
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#FLEMISH EYE: Sanctity of the Bourgeois
All that is needed to appreciate Flemish painting, Michelangelo once observed, are two eyes and an interest in facts. He was alluding to the intense realism, the extreme precision, and the illusionistic impression of light and atmosphere with which the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Hours Bruges, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Joachim Patinir, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Linda Seidel, Michelangelo, Northern Renaissance Art, Petrus Christus, Quentin Massys, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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PERSPECTIVE: Uncanny Leaps of Expression and Identity
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth-century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit… Perspective, as a systematic distortion paralleling the action of the eye- which is all perspective is, mechanically- becomes a form of … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Edwin Hall, Elizabeth Losh, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Jenny Graham, John Haber, John Haber Art, Laura Gelfand, Linda Seidel, Master of Flémalle, Northern Renaissance Art, Peter Voorn, Pierre Bordieu, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, The Lost Dutchman
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SACRAMENTS OF MARRIAGE: Take Your Shoes Off
Jan van Eyck, of all artists, is the one who proves that turning to the world need not mean reduction to the commonplace, and of all his paintings, the double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride, Jeanne Cenami, is … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dale Kent, Edwin Hall, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Hubert van Eyck, Irwin Panofsky, Jan van Eyck, Jean Wilson, Linda Seidel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Gardner, Northern Renaissance Art, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Renaissance Art, Susan Jones Caldwell College, The Lost Dutchman, William P. Coleman
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AN ANGEL IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: Elegance Before Passion
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit. … For anyone trying to tell the history of art as a continuous development , the fifteenth century always appears … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Agincourt, Donatello Sculpture, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Filippo Brunelleschi, Flemish Art, Jan van Eyck, Masaccio, Master of Flémalle, Northern Renaissance Art, Northern Renaissance Painting, Philip the Good, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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CHRISTMAS IN JULY: AND A MAGI IN A PEAR TREE
Hans Memling’s ”The Seven Joys of Mary” is a pageant as much as a painting, a dramatization of holy events in a landscape that might accommodate the revelry of a midsummer eve. Exactly what is going on is hard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Tani, Cathedral of Lubeck, Chales The Bold, Chapel of the Tanners, Cyndi Lauper, Flemish painting, Hans Memling, Northern Renaissance Art, Northern Renaissance Painting, Paul Jeromack, Peter Bultinc, Saint Thomas, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Saint Vincent de Paul
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KNIGHTY-NIGHT TO THE ART-RISTOCRATS
The latter years of the fourteenth-century and the early years of the fifteenth were the grimmest period in French history. Between the Black Death, the everlasting war with England, plundering raids, taxies and levies; circumstances conspired to reduce the voice … Continue reading
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Tagged Angers Apocalypse Tapestries, Angers tapestries, Bible Apocalypse, Book of Revelation, Charles the Bold, Claus de Werve, Duc de Berry, Duke of Bedford, Duke of Burgundy, Gothic Sculpture, Hieronymous Bosch, International Style, Jean Duc de Berry, Larry Solomon, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Louis Duke of Anjou, Medieval Illuminated manuscripts, Nicolas Bataille, Northern Renaissance Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, S. Agnes, Sean Martinfield, The Royal Gold Cup, The Royal Gold Cup of England and France
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GOING OUT IN STYLE & FOOLING THE ALMIGHTY
The first duty of a prince is magnificence. A royal prerogative to go forth and accumulate; especially on the backs of the disenfranchised poor, of which there seemed an unlimited supply. The four sons of King John took up their … Continue reading
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Tagged Asteria in Europe, Claus de Werve, Claus Sluter, Duke John the Fearless, Erwin Panofsky, Gothic Sculpture, Hennequin of Bruges, Irwin Panofsky, Jean de Vaudetar, Limbourg Brothers, Nicolas Bataille, Northern Renaissance Art, Pierpont Morgan Library, Pierre Quarre, Richard Vaughan, Sculptor Claus Sluter, Sean Martinfield
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