1. NORTHERN RENAISSANCE Things to Know for
Did not have classical antiquity as inspiration
More of an extension of Gothic art
Interest in symbolism
Also interested in observing nature
Women painters have higher status
Should not be considered an appendage to Italian art.
But, Italian influence was strong.
Painting in OIL, developed in Flanders, was widely adopted in Italy.
The differences between the two cultures:
ITALY  change was inspired by humanism with its emphasis on the revival of the values of classical antiquity.
NORTHERN EUROPE  change was driven by religious reform, the return to Christian values, and the revolt against the authority of the Church.
More princes & kings were patrons of artists.

2. NORTHERN RENAISSANCE Things to Know for
The continuation of late medieval attention to details.
Tendency toward realism & naturalism [less emphasis on the “classical ideal”].
Interest in landscapes.
More emphasis on middle-class and peasant life.
Details of domestic interiors.
Great skill in portraiture.

3. Tres Riches Heures (Very Rich Hours) 1413-1416
Les Tres Riches Heures
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry or simply the Très Riches Heures (The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry) is a richly decorated Book of Hours (containing prayers to be said by the faithful at each of the canonical hours of the day) commissioned by Jean, Duke of Berry, around 1410.
It illustrates the various seasonal tasks throughout the various months.
Limbourg Brothers
Tres Riches Heures (Very Rich Hours)

5. September Harvesting grapes December Wild boar hunt

6. (featured on January’s page)
Jean, Duke de Berry
(featured on January’s page)

7. Melchior Broederlam
Annunciation and Visitation and Presentation and Flight into Egypt, 1399.

8. Petrus Christus
A Goldsmith in his Shop 1449

9. Jan Van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434.
Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in His Shop, 1449

10. Dirck Bouts
Virgin and Child
1455

12. Fifteenth-Century Flemish
Dirk Bouts Last Supper (center panel of the Altarpiece of the Holy Sacrament), St. Peter’s Louvain, Belgium
This painting is the first northern one to used a single vanishing point for constructing an interior and he adjusts figures’ scale to correspond to the space they occupy. The perspective isn’t perfect however. The windows and side rooms do not adhere to the rules of linear perspective.
It was the first Flemish panel painting depicting this event. He didn’t focus on the biblical narrative itself but instead presented Christ in the role of a priest performing a ritual from the liturgy of the Christian Church.
This contrasts sharply with other Last supper depictions. The people depicted are most like portraits of the confraternity’s members responsible for commissioning the altarpiece.

13. Hugo van der Goes
Portinari Altarpiece
1474

14. Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece, 1474-76.

15. Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
Hans Memling
Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
1487

16. Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
Hans Memling
Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
1487

17. Pop Quiz!
Giotto, The Visitation Arena Chapel, 1305.
LATE GOTHIC

18. Guess That
NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Piece!

19. Limbourg Brothers
Tres Riches Heures (Very Rich Hours)

20. Jan Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (open), 1432 EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

21. Jan Van Eyck
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride
1434
EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

22. Jan van Eyck
Man in a Red Turban
1433, Oil on wood
EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

23. EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Rogier Van Der Weyden,
Deposition, 1435.
EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

24. Jan van Eyck, The Annunciation, 1434.
EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

25. Petrus Christus A Goldsmith in His Shop, 1449.
EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

26. Rogier Van Der Weyden
Portrait of a Lady
1460
EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

27. EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Hugo van der Goes, Portinari Altarpiece (open)
EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

28. EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE
Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece(open),1425
EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

29. Jan Van Eyck,
Ghent Altarpiece (closed), 1432
EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

30. Giotto
Madonna Enthroned ca
LATE GOTHIC / PROTO-RENAISSANCE

31. Robert Campin, Merode Altarpiece(open),1425 EARLY NORTHERN RENAISSANCE

32. Chartres Cathedral
HIGH FRENCH GOTHIC
South Tower,1160
North Spire,

33. Duccio, “Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints” Principle panel of the Maesta alterpiece, from the Siena Cathedra,
Siena, Italy, Tempra on wood panel LATE GOTHIC / PROTO-RENAISSANCE

34. Augustus of Primaporta, Early 1st Century BCE
REPUBLIC ROME

35. Duccio, The Arrest of Jesus, (detail from back of the Maesta altarpiece). Siena, Italy LATE GOTHIC / PROTO-RENAISSANCE

36. Dying Gaul
Pergamon, Turkey ca BC
HELLENISTIC PERIOD

37. Giotto Lamentation, ca. 1305 Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy
LATE GOTHIC / PROTO-RENAISSANCE

38. Spoils of Jerusalem, relief panel from the Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy, after A.D. 81 EARLY EMPIRE ROMAN

39. Rome, Italy A.D. 312-315 LATE EMPIRE ROMAN
Arch of Constantine
Rome, Italy A.D LATE EMPIRE ROMAN

40. Emperor Justinian and his Attendants, Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, c547.

41. Pantheon, Rome, Italy. 125-128 AD HIGH EMPIRE ROMAN