ARTH213

Topic 4 – Tangible Success: Early Portraits and Domestic Art


 

Key terms:

·        Portraiture, bust or half-length format, medal

·        Diptych, pendants

·        Silverpoint sketch, trompe-l’oeil

·        Étienne Chevalier, Royal Notary and Secretary in 1442; Controller General of Crown receipts in 1445; and Royal Treasurer in 1452

·        Agnès Sorel, mistress of Charles VII, King of France

·        Philip de Croy, seigneur de Sempy, chamberlain to Philip the Good

·        Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami (married in 1447)

·        Peter Jan Foppeszoon, town councillor and church warden of St Bavo, Harlem

 

Image group URL: http://www.artstor.org/artstor/ViewImages?q=gDJHdjch&userId=gjZDdw%3D%3D&igName=4Q5dcjM1Iik0


<1>
Jan van Eyck

Virgin in a Church

c. 1425

 

<2>

Jean Fouquet

Melun diptych

c.1450

 

<3>
Rogier van der Weyden

Portrait Diptych of Philippe de Croy

1459-61

 

<4>
Jan van Eyck

Portrait of Cardinal Niccolò Albergati 1438

<5>

Petrus Christus

Portrait of a Carthusian

1446

 

 

 

<6>
Robert Campin

Portrait of a man and a woman

c. 1435

 

<7>
Jan van Eyck

The Arnolfini portrait

1434

Inscription: “Johannes de eyck fuit hic. 1434»

 

<8>
Albrecht Dürer

Portrait of Johannes Kleberger

1526

 

<9>
Quinten Massys

The ugly duchess

1525-1530

 

<10>

Maarten van Heemskerck

Family portrait

c. 1530