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- FRANCE
- -silk cloth above altar
- -extensive consecutive narrative
- -contained, framed by arches
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- MADONNA IN A CHURCH
- 1425
- JAN VAN EYCK
- BELGIUM
- -part of diptych
- -gothic church, soaring architecture
- -Mary framed by arch, curved like the arches; Mary made into column
- -paradox of earthly and divine
- -question of reality, Mary's relationship with the church-> she's "bigger" than the church
- -must be divine light coming in church (light couldn't come from that side, gothic cathedral position)
- -christ in "seat of wisdom"
- -despite Int'l style, later work of Eyck
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- MIRAFLORES ALTARPIECE
- 1435
- ROGER VAN DER WEYDEN
- BELGIUM
- -space and time come together
- -space unfolds through frames; deeper in background
- -arch used as frame
- -balanced, normative
- - everything is visible, every detail
- -space is important-> shallow, deepened, deepest
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ANNUNCIATION OF THE DEATH OF VIRGIN
- DUCCIO
- -in interior, Virgin looks more human, sitting on cushion
- -style not too Int'l; little bit of drama
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CHARLES VI TALKING TO HIS ADVISOR from Boucicaut Heures
- BOUCICAUT MASTER
- -king of France at, with Duc de Berry on side
- -domestic interior
- -Flor de lis all over fabric, decoration of the International Style
- -viewer has no relationship to figures
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- ANNUNCIATION
- 1305
- GIOTTO
- fresco from Arena Chapel
- -Anna in domestic interior, clumsy posture
- -angel coming through the window, awkward stuck in window
- -mystery of happening, boxlike interior
- -we see maid outside (hears something)
- -Experience of thresholds
- -various levels of experience
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- ST JOHN on Island of Potmos from Tres Riches
- LIMBOURGH BROS
- -better contrapposto- free indiviual
- -coming together of heaven and earth
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- ANNUNCIATION of the DEATH of VIRGIN
- DUCCIO
- -in interior, virgin looks more human, sitting on cushion
- -style not too int'l; little bit of drama
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- FLIGHT of EGYPT from Boucicaut Heures
- LIMBOURGH BROS
- -Int'l style shown through great colors, decorative shapes
- -central through sun and Mary but not entirely axial
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- MEETING of MAGI from Tres Riches
- LIMBOURGH BROS
- -road altar, beautiful costumes, long features (int'l style)
- -interest in exotic discoveries (i.e. lions)
- -made to glorify and please the Duke de Berry
- -recognizably France, not Jerusalem
- -decorative frame-> takes away from reality
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- MARCH calendar page from Tres Heures
- LIMBOURGH BROS
- -shoes labors of the month: plowing, grape vines
- -castle of Duke de Berry in background
- -cyclical composition, attempt at axial line in landscape
- - same road altar (marker) as 'meeting of magi'
- -play with light and shadow, high horizon (typical of int'l style)
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- NATIVITY from Tres Riches
- LIMBOURGH BROS
- -central axis to baby jesus
- -interesting decorative framing
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- STROZZI ALTARPIECE, Adoration of Magi
- GENTILE Da FABRIANO
- -amazing rich color BUT story is lost through lushness of image
- -extremely high horizon
- -no visual emphasis on drama
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- ADORATION of the MAGI from Tres Riches
- LIMBOURGH BROS
- -light and shadoe
- -central axis is lost to leopards
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- DEPOSITION from CROSS
- 1338
- SIMONE MARTINI
- -intense gold leaf background
- -facial expression, dramatic
- -asymmetric, very low horizon
- -gold background becomes negative space
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- MADONNA in ROSE BUSH
- STEFANO DA GIOVANNI
- -international style
- -Madonna in Humility
- -not a space that you can occupy (pattern)
- -madonna larger than st catherine, even though shes farther back
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- APRIL calendar page from Tres Riches
- LIMBOURGH BROS
- -secular image
- -"aesthetic ideal masquerading as an ethic ideal"
- -apple orchids to right, weird perspective
- -aristocrats having ring exchange, courtly style
- -Duke de Berry's castle is background (no integration between figures and landscape)
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- MAY calendar page from Tres Riches
- LIMBOURGH BROS
- -Duke de Berry castle in background (some what portrait of Duke)
- -courtiers out for horse ride
- -intense pattern, high horizon
- -functions as a flat tapestry, layers
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- CORONATION of the VIRGIN form Tres Riches
- LIMBOURGH BROS
- -decorative, high patterning, artificial
- -small illumination and marginal imagery
- -no earthly setting, little depth
- -emphasis on weird contour of frame-> takes away from reality
- -frame object in itself
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