1400-1464
The one TRUERenaissance Idol
ROGIER VAN DERWEYDEN
Renaissance Ideal-Individualism (portraits)
•Painting everyday people and not just religious images
Portrait of ayoung lady ina pinned hat
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Renaissance Ideal – Individualism (fame)
•Flanders artist (Netherlands) whose art wasappreciated in Italy as well.
•1436 moved to Brussels and was appointed officialpainter to the city.
•Had a large workshop with numerous assistantsand students
•Many of his compositions are known in severalversions.
•His influence was strong and widespread as hisemotional/dramatic style found manyfollowers/imitators
Renaissance Ideal – Realism (perspective/emotion)
•He was extremely inventive with his compositions, and wasa master of depicting human emotion.
•The 3-dimentionaldepth of theoutdoors throughthe window andthe elegant bed,show the type ofperspective usethat was key to therealism ofRenaissance art.
•Even in his religious art he was unapologetic as he showedhis secularism with the human tragedy of the cross
The Decent from the Cross
•In this excerpt from The Last Judgment he captures emotion, aswell as the ideal of secularism in his inclusion of nude figures inPergatory.
VOTE Rogier Van der Weyden
•The beauty and spiritual intensity his work made his paintingaccessible to succeeding generations of Flemish artists as well asItalian artist (mimic).
•A famous humanists called him "the glory among painters“
•A Catholic cardinal called him "the greatest of artists“
National Gallery London
National Gallery London
The one TRUE Renaissance Idol
Citations (those not used in paper)
•http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/weyden/
•http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Roger_van_der_Weyden.aspx
•The Independent. “The Critics: Exhibitions: Minor? He was huge in the15th century Rogier van der Weyden”. National Gallery London. 21March 1999.