Survey of Art and Culture 2 Exam 1

Name: Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife.Date: 1434Artist: Jan van EyckEra: Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula.

The lower zone of the altarpiece.

Distant elements appear increasingly indistinct and less colorful as they approach the background. The sky becomes paler near the horizon and the distant landscape turns bluish-gray.

A method of creating the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface by delineating a horizon line and multiple orthogonal lines.

Name:February, Life in the CountryArtist: Tres Riches HeuresDate:1411-1416Period:Fifteenth-Centuary Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula.

A painting on paper or parchment used as an illustration and/or decoration in manuscripts or albums. Usually richly colored, often supplemented by gold and other precious materials. The artists are referred to as illuminators.

An artwork made up of three panels. The panels may be hinged together so the side segments (wings) fold over the central area.

Name: Merode AltarpieceArtist: Master of Flemalle (Robert CampinDate: 1425-1430Era: Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula

Two panels of equal size (usually decorated with paintings or relief) hinged together.

Flemish artists preferred oil paints, in which powdered pigments are suspended in linseed-and occasionally walnut--oil. They exploited the potential of this medium during the fifteenth century with a virtuosity that has never been surpassed.

A painting medium made by blending egg yolks with water, pigments, and occasionally other materials, such as glue.

Name: DepositionArtist: Rogier va der WeydenDate: 1435-1438Era: Fifteen Century Art in Northern Europe and the Iberian Peninsula

The application of paper-thin gold leaf or gold pigment to an object made from another medium.

A method of rendering the effect of spatial distance by subtle variations in color and clarity of representation.

The techniques' used by printmakers during the fifteenth century were woodcut and engraving. Woodblocks cut in relief had long been used to print designs on cloth, but only in the fifteenth century did the printing of images and texts on paper and the production of books in multiple copies of a single edition, or version, begin to replace the copying of each book by hand.