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Hieronymus Bosch

December 12, 2025

Today we will look at the art of Hieronymus Bosch, created at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century in The Netherlands. He was an artist known for his fantastic and moralizing works. These works are more closely linked to medieval art and mentality than to the Renaissance. Bosch was very […]

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Rogier van der Weyden

December 12, 2025

Rogier van der Weyden was born in Tournai, Belgium, where he received his training and worked primarily in Brussels. He enjoyed great success during his lifetime, and his works date from the 1430s to the 1460s. We’re going to focus on what is likely his most famous painting, *The Descent from the Cross* (c. 1435), […]

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Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441). Beauty is in the details

December 12, 2025

Jan van Eyck was one of the most influential painters of the Northern Renaissance, born around 1390 in Maaseik, a town in what is now Belgium. He worked in Bruges, the economic and cultural center of the region at the time. Van Eyck is best known for his pioneering use of oil painting, his incredible […]

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Early Netherlandish Painting

December 12, 2025

Together with Italy, the leading region in Europe for the production of paintings during the fifteenth century was an area roughly corresponding to modern-day Belgium. Several of the greatest painters of the time worked there, including Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, whose works we will study in this course. The image on […]

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Fra Angelico

European Paintings From Leonardo to Goya

December 10, 2025

We can study art, for example, from a historical standpoint. We should be thankful to them for this.We have benefited, especially, from images of paintings and the web pages of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles,the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Rijksmusem […]

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Fra Angelico (c. 1400-1455). Painting Piety in Fifteenth-Century in Italy

December 10, 2025

Fra Giovanni da Fiesole (Vicchio, c. 1395 – Rome, 18 February 1455), known as Fra Angelico was a Dominican friar and one of the greatest painters of the early Florentine Renaissance during the 15th century. He earned his reputation for the series of frescoes he made for his own friary, San Marco in Florence, by comission of Cossimo de Medici ‘The Elder’, founder of the Medici […]

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Mantegna (1430-1506). Painting Antiquity in Fifteenth-Century Italy

December 10, 2025

Andrea Mantegna worked in the second half of the fifteenth century, mainly in the northern Italian cities of Padua and Mantua. His work is probably the best witness that we have of the enthusiasm that existed during his time for the art and the history of ancient Rome.This image shows Dido, first Queen of Carthage, […]

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Venus and Mars

Botticelli (1444/45–1510). Painting Beauty in Fifteenth-Century Italy

December 10, 2025

This picture’s by Botticelli. He was a Florentine artist who very much admired during his lifetime. He worked for the Medici. He’s active during the second half of the fifteenth century. His main works were painted between fourteen seventy and forteen ninety. The picture that you see on the screen is an anunciation. It’s a small picture. Ignore the […]

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The Renaissance a Fundamental Break with the Past

December 10, 2025

The Renaissance is a period in the cultural history of Europe that follows the late Middle Ages. It took place during the fifteenth and the sixteenth centuries. During the Medieval period, all areas of life had been dominated by the Christian religion. It was the Renaissance that initiated the path from a religious explanation of […]

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