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Topic 6 – The well-dressed Church: The materialization of faith

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Key terms:

· Altarpiece, wings, predella, relic, reliquary, pilgrimage

· Jodocus Vijd and Isabella Borluut

· Jean Chevrot, Bishop of Tournai, adviser of the Duke Philip the Good

· Seven sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Confession, Communion (Eucharist), Taking of Holy Orders, Marriage, Extreme Unction

· Crossbowmen’s Guild of Louvain

· Tomasso Portinari

· Benedict Eck, Abbot of Mondsee

· Matthäus Landauer

· Welsch vs. Deutsch

Image group URL: Church http://www.artstor.org/artstor/ViewImages?q=gDJHdjcn&userId=gjZDdw%3D%3D&igName=8hpdcyQt

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Jan van Eyck

Ghent altarpiece

1432

Church of St Bavo, Ghent

<2>

Rogier van der Weyden

Descent from the Cross

c.1435-40

Church of Our Lady outside the walls, Louvain

<3>

Rogier van der Weyden

Triptych of the Seven Sacraments

c. 1440-5

<4>

Hugo van der Goes

Portinari altarpiece

c. 1473-8

Church of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence

<5>

Hans Memling

Shrine of St Ursula

1489

Hospital of St Jan, Bruges

<6>

Michael Pacher and workshop

St Wolfgang altarpiece

1471-81

St. Wolfgang im Salz-kammergut

<7>

Tilman Riemenschneider

Altarpiece of the Holy Blood

1501-5

St Jacob’s Church, Rothenburg ob der Tauber

<8>

Albrecht Dürer

Adoration of the Holy Trinity

(Landauer altarpiece)

1511

Chapel of the Twelve Brothers’ House, Nuremberg