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Chapter 15Late Medieval and Early

Renaissance Northern Europe

Gardner’s Art Through the Ages, 14e

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Europe in the 15th Century

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Figure 15-15 LIMBOURG BROTHERS (POL, JEAN, HERMAN), January, from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413–1416. Ink on vellum, approx. 8 7/8" X 5 3/8". Musée Condé, Chantilly.

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Figure 15-16 LIMBOURG BROTHERS (POL, JEAN, HERMAN), October, from Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1413–1416. Ink on vellum, 8 7/8" X 5 3/8”. Musée Condé, Chantilly.

15-16A MASTER OF MARY OF BURGUNDY, Mary of Burgundy at Prayer, folios 14 verso and 15 recto of the Hours of Mary of Burgundy, ca. 1480. Colors and ink on parchment, illumination on left page 7 3/8” X 5 1/8”. Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna.

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Figure 15-2 CLAUS SLUTER, Well of Moses, Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon, France, 1395–1406. Limestone with traces of paint, Moses 6’ high.

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Figure 15-3 MELCHIOR BROEDERLAM, Retable de Champmol. from the chapel oft he Chartreuse de Champmol, Dijon, France, installed 1399. Oil on wood, each wing 5’ 5 3/4” X 4’ 1 1/4”. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon.

Retable de Champmol interior

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Figure 15-1 ROBERT CAMPIN (MASTER OF FLEMALLE), Merode Altarpiece (open), ca. 1425-1428. Oil on wood, center panel 2’ 1 3/8” X 2’ 7/8”, each wing 2’ 1 3/8” X 10 7/8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (The Cloisters Collection, 1956).

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Figure 15-4 JAN VAN EYCK, Ghent Altarpiece (closed), Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Oil on wood, 11’ 6" X 7’ 6".

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Figure 15-5 JAN VAN EYCK, Ghent Altarpiece (open), Saint Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium, completed 1432. Oil on wood, 11’ 5" X 15’ 1”.

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Figure 15-8 ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Deposition, center panel of a triptych from Notre-Dame hors-les-murs, Louvain, Belgium, ca. 1435. Oil on wood, 7’ 2 5/8" X 8’ 7 1/8". Museo del Prado, Madrid.

15-8A ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Last Judgment Altarpiece (open), polyptych from Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune, France, ca. 1444–1448. Oil on wood, 7’ 4 5/8” X 17’ 11”. Musée de l’Hôtel-Dieu, Beaune.

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Figure 15-9 ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, ca. 1435-1440. Oil and tempera on wood, 4’ 6 1/8” X 3’ 7 5/8”. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson) 15

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Figure 15-8 ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Deposition, center panel of a triptych from Notre-Dame hors-les-murs, Louvain, Belgium, ca. 1435. Oil on wood, 7’ 2 5/8" X 8’ 7 1/8". Museo del Prado, Madrid.

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Figure 15-11 DIRK BOUTS, Last Supper central panel of the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament, Saint Peter’s, Louvain, Belgium, 1464–1468. Oil on wood, 6’ X 5’.

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Figure 15-12 HUGO VAN DER GOES, Portinari Altarpiece (open), from Sant’Egidio, Florence, Italy, ca. 1476. Tempera and oil on wood, 8’ 3 1/2" X 10’ center panel, 8’ 3 1/2" X 4’ 7 1/2" (each wing). Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

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Figure 15-13 HANS MEMLING, Virgin with Saints and Angels, center panel of the Saint John Altarpiece, Hospitaal Sint Jan, Bruges, Belgium, 1479. Oil on wood, 5’ 7 3/4" X 5’ 7 3/4" (center panel), 5’ 7 3/4" X 2’ 7 1/8" (each wing).

15-14A HANS MEMLING, Tommaso Portinari and Maria Baroncelli, ca. 1470. Oil on wood, each panel 1’ 5 3/8” X 1’ 1 3/8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913).

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15-14 HANS MEMLING, Diptych of Martin van Nieuwenhove, 1487. Oil on wood, each panel 1’ 5 3/8” X 1’ 1”. Memlingmuseum, Bruges.

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Figure 15-6 JAN VAN EYCK, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434. Oil on wood, approx. 2’ 9" X 1’ 10 1/2". National Gallery, London.

“Jan van Eyck was here.” above the mirror

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Figure 15-10 PETRUS CHRISTUS, A Goldsmith in His Shop, 1449. Oil on wood, approx. 3’ 3" X 2’ 10". Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (the Robert Lehman Collection, 1975).

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Figure 15-7 JAN VAN EYCK, Man in a Red Turban, 1433. Oil on wood, 1’ 1 1/8” X 10 1/4". National Gallery, London. “As I can” and “Jan van Eyck made me.”

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Figure 15-9A ROGIER VAN DER WEYDEN, Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1460. Oil on panel, 1’ 1 3/8" X 10 1/16". National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (Andrew W. Mellon Collection).

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Figure 15-17 JEAN FOUQUET, Melun Diptych. Étienne Chevalier and Saint Stephen, (left wing), ca. 1450. Oil on wood, 3’ 1/2” X 2’ 9 1/2”. Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Virgin and Child, (right wing) ca. 1451. Oil on wood, 3’ 1 1/4” X 2’ 9 1/2”. Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp.

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Figure 15-18 KONRAD WITZ, Miraculous Draught of Fish, from the Altarpiece of Saint Peter, from Chapel of Notre-Dame des Maccabées in the Cathedral of Saint Peter, Geneva, Switzerland, 1444. Oil on wood, approx. 4’ 3” X 5’ 1”. Musée d’art et d’Histoire, Geneva.

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Figure 15-19 VEIT STOSS, The Death and Assumption of the Virgin (wings open), altar of the Virgin Mary, church of Saint Mary, Kraków, Poland, 1477–1489. Painted and gilded wood, central panel 23’ 9” high.

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Figure 15-20 TILMAN RIEMENSCHNEIDER, The Assumption of the Virgin, center panel of the Creglingen Altarpiece, Herrgottskirche, Creglingen, Germany, ca. 1495–1499. Lindenwood, 6’ 1” wide.

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Figure 15-21 MICHEL WOLGEMUT and shop, Tarvisium, page from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. Woodcut,1’ 2” X 9”. Printed by ANTON KOBERGER.

Relief and intaglio printmaking

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15-20A Buxheim Saint Christopher, 1423. Hand-colored woodcut, 11 3/8” X 8 1/8”. John Rylands University Library, University of Manchester, Manchester.

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Figure 15-22 MARTIN SCHONGAUER, Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons, ca. 1480–1490. Engraving, 1’ 1/4" X 9". Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Corte di Mamiano.