Chapter 19: Fifteenth-Century Art in Northern Europe

Question 1

Answer 1

Double Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife
Jan van Eyck
(15th c. Northern Europe)
1434 CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 2

Answer 2

Annunciation, Visitation, Presentation in the Temple, and Flight into Egypt
Melchior Broederlam
Exterior of the wings of the altarpiece of the Chartreuse de Champmoi, Dijon, France (15th c. Northern Europe)
1393-1399 CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 3

Answer 3

Well of Moses, Detail of Moses and David
Claus Sluter
The Chartreuse de Champmoi, Dijon, France (15th c. Northern Europe)
1395-1406 CE
Limestone with traces of paint

Question 4

Answer 4

Page with a miniature painting of Thamyris
Giovanni Boccaccio
From Giovanni Boccaccio’s De Claris Mulieribus (Concerning Famous Women) (15th c. Northern Europe)
1402 CE
Ink and tempera on vellum

Question 5

Answer 5

February: Life in the Country, Tres Riches Heures
Paul, Herman, and Jean Limbourg
(15th c. Northern Europe)
1411-1416 CE
Colors and ink on parchment

Question 6

Answer 6

January: The Duke of Berry at Table, Tres Riches Heures
Paul, Herman, and Jean Limbourg
(15th c. Northern Europe)
1411-1416 CE
Colors and ink on parchment

Question 7

Answer 7

Mary at Her Devotions, Hours of Mary of Burgundy
Mary of Burgundy Painter, Burgundy, (15th c. Northern Europe)
Before 1482 CE
Colors and ink on parchment

Question 8

Answer 8

Unicorn Is Found at the Fountain
From the “Hunt of the Unicorn” tapestry series, South Netherlands (15th c. Northern Europe)
c. 1495-1505 CE
Wool, silk, and silver- and gilt-wrapped thread

Question 9

Answer 9

Cope of the Order of the Golden Fleece
Flanders (15th c. Northern Europe)
mid-15th century CE
Cloth with gold and colored silk embroidery

Question 10

Answer 10

Merode Altarpiece (Open), Triptych of the Annunciation)
Workshop of the Master of Flemalle
(15th c. Northern Europe)
c. 1425-1430s CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 11

Answer 11

A Flemish City
Workshop of the Master of Flemalle
Detail of the right wing of the Merode Altarpiece (15th c. Northern Europe)
c. 1425-1430s CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 12

Answer 12

Man in a Red Turban
Jan van Eyck
Burgundy (15th c. Northern Europe)
1433 CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 13

Answer 13

Ghent Altarpiece (open), adoration of the Mystic Lamb
Jan and Hubert (?) van Eyck
Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent, Belgium (15th c. Northern Europe)
Completed 1432 CE
Oil on panel

Question 14

Answer 14

Ghent Altarpiece (closed), Annunciation with Donors
Jan and Hubert (?) van Eyck
Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent, Belgium (15th c. Northern Europe)
Completed 1432 CE
Oil on panel

Question 15

Answer 15

Deposition
Rogier van der Weyden
From an altarpiece commissioned by the crossbowmen’s guild. Louvain, Belgium (15th c. Northern Europe)
Before 1443 CE, possibly 1435-1438 CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 16

Answer 16

St. Luke Drawing the Virgin and Child
Rogier van der Weyden
Brussels, Belgium (15th c. Northern Europe)
c. 1435-1440 CE
Oil and tempera on wood

Question 17

Answer 17

A Goldsmith in His Shop
Petrus Christus
Bruges, Belgium (15th c. Northern Europe)
1449 CE
Oil on oak panel

Question 18

Answer 18

Virgin and Child
Dieric Bouts
Flanders (15th c. Northern Europe)
c. 1455-1460 CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 19

Answer 19

Portinari Altarpiece
Hugo van der Goes
Ghent, Belgium (15th c. Northern Europe)
c. 1474-1476 CE
Tempera and oil on wood panel

Question 20

Answer 20

Diptych of Maarten van Nieuwenhove
Hans Memling
Flanders (15th c. Northern Europe)
1487 CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 21

Answer 21

Etienne Chevalier and St. Stephen, Virgin and Child
Jean Fouquet
The Melun Diptych, France (15th c. Northern Europe)
1452-1455 CE
Oil on oak panel

Question 22

Answer 22

Portrait of Margaret of Austria
Jean Hey (The Master of Moulins)
Moulins, France (15th c. Northern Europe)
c. 1490 CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 23

Answer 23

Church of Saint-Maclou, Rouen
Pierre Robin (?)
Rouen, Normandy, France (15th c. Northern Europe)
1432-1521 CE
Facade 1500-1514 CE

Question 24

Answer 24

Interior courtyard of Jacques Coeur House
Bourges, France (15th c. Northern Europe)
1443-1451 CE

Question 25

Answer 25

Miraculous Draft of Fishes
Konrad Witz
From an altarpiece for the Cathedral of St. Peter, Geneva, Switzerland (15th c. Northern Europe)
1444 CE
Oil on wood panel

Question 26

Answer 26

St. Wolfgang Altarpiece
Michael Pacher
Church of St. Wolfgang, Austria (15th c. Northern Europe)
1471-1481 CE
Carved, painted, and gilt wood; wings are oil on wood panel

Question 27

Answer 27

The Buxheim St. Christopher
Buxheim, Germany (15th c. Northern Europe)
Mid 15th century CE
Hand-colored woodcut

Question 28

Answer 28

The Temptations of St. Anthony
Martin Schongauer
c. 1470-1480 CE
(15th c. Northern Europe)
Engraving

Question 29

Answer 29

The City of Nuremberg
Michael Wolgemut, Wilheim Pleydenwurff, and workshop
from Nuremberg Chronicle, published by Anton Koburger
Nuremberg, Germany (15th c. Northern Europe)
1493 CE
Woodcut within a printed book, hand-colored after printing