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MEDIUM
ICONOGRAPHY
POTPOURRI
100
This medium is slow drying, applied in translucent glazes, and allows for the extraordinary rendering of textures and light.
What is oil paint?
100
In this biblical scene painted by Fra Angelico, Jan van Eyck, and Robert Campin, among many others, the archangel Gabriel visits the Virgin Mary to notify her that she will give birth to the son of God.
What is the Annunciation?
100
A work of art, usually an altarpiece, with more than three hinged sections.
What is a polyptych?
200
This artist of the Ghent Altarpiece is falsely credited with the invention of oil paint.
Who is Jan van Eyck?
200
The horsemen in Durer’s "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" personify these four agents of human destruction.
What is death, famine, war, and plague/pestilence?
200
Holbein’s "The Ambassadors" contains references to the rise of, as well as the discord caused by, this emerging branch of Christianity.
What is Lutheranism?
300
A print taken from wooden block on the surface of which those parts not intended to print are cut away to a slight depth, leaving the design raised.
What is a woodcut?
300
This biblical scene follows the crucifixion and precedes the lamentation.
What is the deposition?
300
The Latin phrase that can be used to describe the possible symbolism of the skull in the foreground of both Rogier’s "Descent from the Cross" and Holbein’s "The Ambassadors."
What is memento mori?
400
Albrecht Durer produced woodcuts and these prints made from taking an impression of a metal plate into which a design has been incised.
What are engravings?
400
The extinguished or unlit candlestick in both Massys’ "Money Changer and His Wife" and Campin’s "Merode Altarpiece" is thought to be a religious symbol of this moment.
What is when God takes human form?
400
If the artists of the Italian Renaissance were particularly skilled at rendering bodies and space realistically according the principles of science and math, the realism of the Northern Renaissance, on the other hand, was based on this activity, which gave rise to the characterization of Jan van Eyck’s eye as something akin to both a microscope and a telescope.
What is close observation?
500
The invention of the printing press by this individual accounts for why engravings and woodcuts, such as Durer’s "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," can now be found in multiple museums and private collections.
Who is Johann Gutenberg?
500
Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights and Van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece provide us with two very different views of the fate of mankind, but nevertheless, they have this pair in common.
Who are Adam and Eve?
500
Those worldly and reasonably wealthy individuals that appear in Campin’s "Merode Altarpiece," Masaccio’s "Holy Trinity," van Eyck’s "Ghent Altarpiece," and countless other religious works.
Who are donors?