ART 2313 HINOJOSA EXAM 3 STUDY
GUIDE.
JAN VAN EYCK - answerforemost painter of the fifteenth century, credited as the inventor of
oil painting
OIL PAINTING - answerdrys very slowly and can be applied in multiple translucent layers,
allowing artists to create meticulous recreations of the effec...
JAN VAN EYCK - answer✔foremost painter of the fifteenth century, credited as the inventor of
oil painting
OIL PAINTING - answer✔drys very slowly and can be applied in multiple translucent layers,
allowing artists to create meticulous recreations of the effects of light
ICONOCLASM - answer✔protestant belief that sacred spaces should be devoid of art, so that
the faithful could concentrate on the text of scripture
THE GHENT ALTERPIECE, jan van eyck 1432 - answer✔-source of civic pride
-only opened on sundays and feast days
-exterior = the annununciation
THE ANNUNCIATION - answer✔scene where the angel tells mary that she is with child
THE ANNUNCIATION, the ghent alterpiece - answer✔-features john the baptist, john the
evangelist, prophets, sibyls
-use of oil recreates atmospheric persperctive
INTERIOR, the ghent altarpiece - answer✔-top register = God, w/ 3 tier tiara of the popes
-his right = virgin
-his left = the baptist
-the three create deesis: scene of judgement/ intersection
THE ARNOLFINI PORTRAIT, jan van eyck 1434 - answer✔-portrays wealth, highly stylish, lavish
costumes/ furnishings
-commissioned by a medici banker
-iconographic: symbols that mean something to the couple (ex. oranges: imported, hard to get/
bed & mirror: very expensive)
DEPOSITION, roger van der weydens 1435 - answer✔-n. renaissance humanist piece de
resistance
-the gold ground pushes the figures to the foreground forcing the viewer to contemplate not
only the corpus christi, but also the anguish of all of christs attendants, especially mary, who
swoons in position parallel to christ
GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS, hieronymous bosch 1505 - answer✔-triptych
-begins w the creation of world, full of exotic animals/ architecture
-central panel: orgy engulfs the landscape, w/ food, drink, sex, animal parades, bathing, dancing
-final panel: outcome of following the path of indulgence, hellish landscape full of strange
animals, mutated forms, where sinners atone for their sins accordingly
MIRACULOUS DROUGHT OF FISH, altarpiece of st. peter, konrad witz 1444 - answer✔-christ
walking on lake geneva
-the imperiled peter floundering in the water can be seen as a jab at the church, whose
authority has no longer considered infallible
THE ISENHEIM ALTARPIECE, matthias grünewlad 1510 - answer✔-focuses on the physical agony
of the crucifixion, w/ gruesome details, contorted hands and feet, cuts and bruises
-predella: dead christ awaits entombment
-when altar opened, doors amputate legs of dead christ = intentional reference to sick and
suffering (ergotism)
-wings: st. sebastian, st. anthony both suffer and/ subject to divine healing
-inside: incarnation and resurrection
ALBRECHT DÜRER - answer✔-master of german printmaking
-painter and naturalist
-keeps journals and thousands of drawings
HARE AND GREAT PIECE OF TURF, albrecht durer 1502 - answer✔-simple watercolor
-new emphasis on nature, as gods creations
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